Re: Trial Patch

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On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Peter Senna Tschudin
<peter.senna@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On September 8, 2014 11:08:46 PM EDT, nick <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>I am attaching a trial patch again , please let me known if there are
>>>any issues for me to fix.
>>>Nick
>>
>> Nick, I guess you know this list is a training ground for the main lists.  As such the same rules are enforced when it comes to formatting.
>>
>> Patches as an attachment are simply not acceptable.  You have to do them inline. I'm surprised people are even opening your attachments to look at them.
>
> My understanding is that the problem is not with attachments, but with
> using strange things like base64 for attachments. Nick has used plain
> text attachment which seem perfectly fine for me. Check this:
>
> http://www.tux.org/lkml/
>
> "If I get a patch in an attachment (other than a "Text/PLAIN" type
> attachment with no mangling and that pretty much all mail readers and
> all tools will see as a normal body), I simply WILL NOT apply it unless
> I have strong reason to. I usually wont even bother looking at it,
> unless I expected something special from the sender.
>
> Really. Don't send patches as attachments.
>
> Linus"
>
> So plain text attachment seem to be acceptable...
>
>
>>
>> Greg
>> --
>> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>>
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> Peter
I understand that , sorry Guys. I am going to fix this later including
my spell checks.

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