Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265632AbTFSIon (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 04:44:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265735AbTFSIon (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 04:44:43 -0400 Received: from vladimir.pegasys.ws ([64.220.160.58]:17169 "EHLO vladimir.pegasys.ws") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265632AbTFSIol (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 04:44:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 01:55:07 -0700 From: jw schultz To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: DVB updates, 3rd try Message-ID: <20030619085507.GD20116@pegasys.ws> Mail-Followup-To: jw schultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3EF051AF.1060006@convergence.de> <20030618161253.GA53261@compsoc.man.ac.uk> <20030619014509.GC20116@pegasys.ws> <20030619021318.GA53393@compsoc.man.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030619021318.GA53393@compsoc.man.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1325 Lines: 34 On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:13:19AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:45:09PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > > [over-quoting snipped] > > > Please don't do this. $reply_to ||= $message_id is OK but > > having each patch as a reply to the previous one is > > annoying. I think it was Greg who recently posted one set > > of patches that was so large the indentation for the thread > > went off the screen. > > > > [PATCH 0/n] frob the niggle > > |-> [PATCH 1/n] frob the niggle > > |-> [PATCH 2/n] frob the niggle > > |-> [PATCH 3/n] frob the niggle > > Then the patches don't appear in order in people's mail readers. So what? The only time display order matters if one is dependant on another. Most of the patch sets i've seen don't have such dependencies. Otherwise the enumeration is just so you know if you have all the patches in a set. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: jw@pegasys.ws Remember Cernan and Schmitt - 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/