Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1032724AbXHMSGA (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:06:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S973532AbXHMRuO (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:50:14 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:45661 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1032620AbXHMRuF (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:50:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:50:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Jiri Kosina cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] [374/2many] MAINTAINERS - PCNET32 NETWORK DRIVER In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <46bffb4c.nrqicrPs7IJXlgQ0%joe@perches.com> <20070812.233630.00455011.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1128 Lines: 33 On Aug 13 2007 14:08, Jiri Kosina wrote: >On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, David Miller wrote: > >> Ok, 374 patches is just rediculious. >> So many patches eats up an enormous amount of mailing list resources, >> and for these patches in particular there are few reasons to split them >> up at all. The fact that the split up landed you at 300+ patches is a >> very good indication of that. > >Actually, I can see 546 patches up to now. Horrid. > >Besides that, it's very unfortunate that every single mail of this >ridiculously huuuuge patch series starts a new thread (no 'References' or >'In-Reply-To' header), so it's not possible to nuke it at once in an usual >way. Pine: ; t s MAINTAINERS a d x and it's all gone ;-) though.. it does not cover for replies trickling in later. Granted, ^D to delete the whole thread (if there was one) would have been easier. Jan -- - 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/