Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753183Ab3IIMBZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Sep 2013 08:01:25 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:39076 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752284Ab3IIMBX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Sep 2013 08:01:23 -0400 Message-ID: <522DB846.5010801@ahsoftware.de> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:00:06 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130805 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guenter Roeck CC: Mark Brown , Daniel Santos , Daniel Santos , linux-gpio , linux-usb , linux-spi , Samuel Ortiz , LKML , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: "Virtual" Interrupts -- Need help please References: <522BC27A.5080303@att.net> <522BCA33.6000701@roeck-us.net> <522D0D37.3050500@att.net> <522D17EC.3050908@roeck-us.net> <20130909110257.GU29403@sirena.org.uk> <522DAE69.4050608@ahsoftware.de> <522DB4E1.7080507@roeck-us.net> In-Reply-To: <522DB4E1.7080507@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1925 Lines: 50 Am 09.09.2013 13:45, schrieb Guenter Roeck: > On 09/09/2013 04:18 AM, Alexander Holler wrote: >> Am 09.09.2013 13:02, schrieb Mark Brown: >>> On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 05:35:56PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >>> >>> Please fix your mailer to word wrap within paragraphs, not doing this >>> makes your mail very hard to read. It looks like your mailer has also >>> reflowed Daniel's mail. >> >> That's just wrong. Mail readers should wrap lines, not senders. And >> readers can do this since some decades. >> >> The reason is obvious: No sender knows the line width the receiver can >> display. So, for example, if the sender hard breaks lines every 80 >> chars, a reader with a device which just displays 60 characters at >> max. will see every second line with at most 20 characters. I assume >> you can guess how such does look like. Furthermore there are still a >> lot of people which do like to read mails with line length as long >> their display is possible to show, and hard breaking lines on the >> receiver side does make such impossible. Uups, sorry, I meant on the sender side here. ;) >> >> So the correct behaviour is to not hard break lines on the sender side >> and leave that to the reader on the receiving side, as only the >> receiving side knows the line width. >> > > I am using thunderbird and/or mutt. I don't think they reflow anything, > or at least the logged mail doesn't seem to have been reflowed (nor > does the text above). > > As for what I write myself, I prefer to wrap manually, meaning automatic > insertion of newlines is turned off. Guess I can not do it right for That just the right thing to do. > everyone. Regards, Alexander Holler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/