[PATCH v2 3/7] Test for header preservation

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Mon Oct 10 18:06:42 AEDT 2016


On Wed, 2016-09-28 at 18:02 +0100, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> On 28 Sep 15:22, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> > 
> > We're about to rework header parsing. Try to ensure the changes
> > preserve functionality.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
> 
> I like the idea, but I don't know if there is any advantage in being
> quite so specific? 

Forgive me for jumping in without understanding much of the context.

> Couldn't we drop a lot of these headers? (for
> example, the problematic 'CC' header)?

We don't need the Cc header line in patchwork itself today, but Kalle
is writing a tool that, among other things, will send out emails when
patches are applied, and preserving the Cc line for that is really
quite useful.

But I may very well be misinterpreting this entirely.

johannes


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