Correct way to submit a patch?

Dave Wolfe dwolfe at lists.linuxppc.org
Wed Feb 6 04:23:30 EST 2002


[ Tom Rini writes: ]
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:25:03PM -0600, Dave Wolfe wrote:
> >
> > [ benh at kernel.crashing.org writes: ]
> > >
> > > The proper way is to send it to this list, eventually CC'ed to one
> > > of the people in the MAINTAINERS file depending which type of machine
> > > is affected by it.
> >
> > I would suggest that patches be attached to the email.
>
> Please don't...  I tend to take the Linus approach to this.  I won't
> ignore attachments like him tho.. :)

Then you risk mangled patches, and I guarantee that patches in the
archives will be unusable since they're converted to HTML. I'm not fond
of attachments either, but this is one application of them that is
appropriate.

--
 Dave Wolfe

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