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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:23:46 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Henne <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata-piix: kerneldoc-error-on-ata_piixc.patch 2nd try
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:37:38 +0200 Henne wrote:

> Jeff Garzik schrieb:
> > Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >> I agree with all of these except #4.  Maybe you can reconcile your
> >> preference with that in Documentation/SubmittingPatches, which
> >> contains:
> >>
> >> <quote>
> >> The canonical patch message body contains the following:
> >>
> >>   - A "from" line specifying the patch author.
> >> </quote>
> >>
> >> A patch submitter should not need to know the patch receiver's
> >> personal preferences and vary patches based on those.
> > 
> > 
> > It's not a personal preference.  It's all based on git-applymbox, pretty
> > much.
> > 
> > The SubmittingPatches doc should be updated to clarify that a From line
> > is not needed in the email body, if it is the same as the From line in
> > the RFC822 header.

It seems to be a small, simple matter of "not needed" vs. "allowed".
AFAIK, From: is always allowed but it is not needed if the From: mail
header matches the From: body text.


> >     Jeff
> Thanks for pointing my nose on this guys! I'll keep that in mind when writing patches, but that from line
> should be discussed by the maintainers.


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~Randy
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