A very stupid question about formatting a patch :)

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu Aug 18 06:23:42 EDT 2016


On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 01:08:43PM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> > I don't see anyone removing that line, perhaps you aren't looking at
> > the patch properly in an email client?
> > 
> > Leave it in there, it's good to have.
> 
> There is way too much traffic in LMKL for me to read it with e-mail
> client. This is why I'm using lkml.org. Here are just a few random
> patches that were sent today:
> 
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/18/160
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/18/155
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/18/131
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/18/123
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/18/120
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/18/98
> 
> No empty lines. Maybe in fact there are empty lines but lkml.org
> removed them? 

Yup, it looks that way, the above patches all have that line in them
when I look at the real emails.

I recommend using a real email client when dealing with patches, allmost
all web interfaces will mess them up.

greg k-h



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