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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Fri, 19 Oct 2018 09:22:08 +0200
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Subject: Re: move bus (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, rapdio) config to drivers/ v2
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Hi Christoph,

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:10 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 09:07:51AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Without this:
> >   - It's hard to visually match your untagged cover letter with the
> > actual patches,
> >   - Your individual patches lack the version info, so people cannot see which
> >     version review comments in an email reply apply to.
>
> All of that is trivially solved by mail threading.

You forgot to answer this question:

| Can you please clarify what exactly that would mess up?

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
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