Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261463AbVEFBbg (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2005 21:31:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262106AbVEFBbf (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2005 21:31:35 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:14769 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261463AbVEFBbd (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2005 21:31:33 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] update SubmittingPatches to clarify attachment policy From: Lee Revell To: Steven Cole Cc: Paulo Marques , Krzysztof Halasa , Rik van Riel , Dave Hansen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <427A9169.6050300@mesatop.com> References: <20050504170156.87F67CE5@kernel.beaverton.ibm.com> <427A0B04.1030408@grupopie.com> <427A9169.6050300@mesatop.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 21:31:30 -0400 Message-Id: <1115343090.28496.9.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1198 Lines: 33 On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 15:34 -0600, Steven Cole wrote: > Paulo Marques wrote: > > > > However if we Copy+Paste the patch into the mail it gets line wrapped / > > white space mangled. > > That depends on where you are Copy+Pasting from. Granted, Copy+Paste from > a variety of sources is a nightmare. But, Copy+Paste from Tbird to Tbird > seems to actually work. > > > > > So at least for Thunderbird users it would be better to use attached > > patches with "Content-Disposition: inline". > > > > Here is a trick you can play with Thunderbird to get inlined patches: > > 1) Mail the patch to yourself as an attachment. > 2) Read the mail you just got, copy and paste the patch to your new message. > > This method preserves the tabs/whitespace. Of course, you have to set the > wordwrap settings appropriately. It works for me. Personally, I don't understand people who can hack the kernel but complain about bugs in their mail client. Lee - 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/