Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751315AbVJSV22 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:28:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751358AbVJSV22 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:28:28 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:42757 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751315AbVJSV21 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:28:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4356BAAD.2010409@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:29:17 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Coywolf Qi Hunt CC: linux Subject: Re: lock_kernel twice possible ? References: <2cd57c900510150033o7bd44608vdc57cb32e335b933@mail.gmail.com> <20051015073803.26937.qmail@web33311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <2cd57c900510150047y4108a493k859f86bf1324468@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2cd57c900510150047y4108a493k859f86bf1324468@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1404 Lines: 39 Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > On 10/15/05, li nux wrote: > >>Sorry, couldn't get what you want to say. >>Can you please elaborate. > > > http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/top-posting.txt > http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html The whole post fit on one screen and he was not continuing the conversation, he was commenting on your post as a whole. I think you're being a bit pedantic here. I don't think his reply failed your criteria, it wasn't overlong, it didn't break a flowing discussion, and no backward reading was required. ~~~~~~~ Q: Why is top-posting evil? A1: Because top-posters tend to leave the entirety of the email to which they are replying intact, so the email gets too long. A2: Because we prefer to use bottom-posting, and it is *extremely* hard to maintain a coherently flowing email conversation when some of the participants are bottom-posting and some are top-posting. A3: backwards read don't humans because -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/