Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754767AbZJEUVV (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:21:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754717AbZJEUVU (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:21:20 -0400 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:52286 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753757AbZJEUVU (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:21:20 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: David Newall Cc: "Jayson R. King" , LKML , Con Kolivas Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] BFS backport to 2.6.27 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:34:48 +1030." <4ACA2730.7000006@davidnewall.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <4AC9B97B.6070900@jaysonking.com> <4AC9C9EC.7070003@jaysonking.com> <4AC9FEBB.8080009@davidnewall.com> <4ACA188B.1020108@jaysonking.com> <4ACA2730.7000006@davidnewall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1254774029_3393P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:20:29 -0400 Message-ID: <168327.1254774029@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 128.173.35.168 turing-police.cc.vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2 pass X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=neutral-1, source=Fixed, refid=n/a, actions=MAILHURDLE SPF TAG X-Junkmail-Info: (0) X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=vivi.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020203.4ACA550F.0155,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2009-07-29 21:33:33, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=multiengine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1782 Lines: 43 --==_Exmh_1254774029_3393P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:34:48 +1030, David Newall said: > Yes, I was trying for irony. Mime has been around for many decades and > anybody claiming that they can't cope with them is probably very stupid > or lying to make some strange point. Anyway, I'm not trying to change > the policy, but was only have a snide dig, en passant, at the crufty, > old, has-been attitude that it represents. The problem is that with most MUAs, if you do a 'reply and quote text', it only operates correctly on the first/main body part - doing a 'reply and quote' to an *attachment* is usually a lot harder, and doing a 'reply and quote text from both main body and attachment' is usually convoluted enough that 'Just Hit Delete' becomes tempting... I've submitted my share of one-liner patches, and they've all been PGP-signed, so they show up as MIME multiparts - and yet I've never ONCE been asked to change it. I have to conclude that it's because although it's a multipart, it's a multipart that DTRT when a maintainer hits 'reply' - and that production MUAs still DTWT when dealing with replying to the attachments rather than the main body.... --==_Exmh_1254774029_3393P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFKylUNcC3lWbTT17ARAnN2AJ4mjya76ctj3Sqm617WA/8LsNkc7wCcDvR0 x44TAGy/8iyVdb4IInBQbOI= =l+ja -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1254774029_3393P-- -- 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/