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. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
