Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756416AbZKREA4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:00:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754117AbZKREAz (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:00:55 -0500 Received: from mail-yx0-f187.google.com ([209.85.210.187]:35987 "EHLO mail-yx0-f187.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753908AbZKREAy (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:00:54 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ESDimgA8zo8Exxr5+E2/wrXH9/NPkzhXfLkFMqYajsRhGZRTuKBdWX8wsgBjTB+NWN DCC/dRHuzgWrO+WtQSuphuG4TUPAOpKNCSsNjuTO0CMT/NhzKUTCB+EIlEaLKV5D+jun uoJdzEmTha3Dw2zj1U355u+4xGKyF4VtZFG1I= Message-ID: <4B037177.7060501@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:00:55 -0500 From: William Allen Simpson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: huananhu@huawei.com, David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/11]Optimize the upload speed for PPP connection. References: <20091117.012248.86306050.davem@davemloft.net> <4B0278D9.6030806@gmail.com> <13129.1258483787@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <13129.1258483787@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1019 Lines: 23 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > The '-- ' *convention* isn't even at the next layer up, MIME. If anything, > it's out at the liveware level (though some MUAs provide code to make it > a bit easier to deal with...) > Hey Valdis, nice to hear from you.... > (Feel free to cite RFC chapter-and-verse if you disagree, and note that > 'Informational' RFCs are never standards. ;) > Yeah, a quick check shows it's mentioned in MIME RFC-1341 (June 1992), but certainly going back to "Proposed standard for message encapsulation" RFC-934 (January 1985) at the very least. I seem to remember that Marshall or Stef or somebody used it for digest sections too, but don't remember the RFC number or a good search term. Still, (relevance here) a convention observed for patches. -- 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/