Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966118AbXILD1P (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:27:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762233AbXILD1A (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:27:00 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortel.com ([47.129.242.57]:43771 "EHLO zcars04f.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757933AbXILD1A (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:27:00 -0400 Message-ID: <46E75C6A.3000705@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:26:34 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Randy Dunlap , lkml , akpm Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches References: <20070911101644.cd3f641f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <46E6EE96.9060309@nortel.com> <46E6F2A8.2020104@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <46E6F2A8.2020104@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Sep 2007 03:26:38.0620 (UTC) FILETIME=[BAC3C5C0:01C7F4EC] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 789 Lines: 19 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Chris Friesen wrote: >> Can someone describe the problems with just attaching the patch in >> Thunderbird? It's what Martin says he does on the linked document... > Email clients don't like to quote attachments, even text/plain ones, > which then makes attached patches much more difficult to review and > comment on (i.e. you greatly reduce the number of reviewers). Thunderbird, at least, will automatically inline a single text/plain attachment when replying. (At least with my current settings, it does.) Chris - 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/