Eudyptula Challenge

Greg Donald gdonald at gmail.com
Fri May 23 15:26:17 EDT 2014


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud at opteya.com> wrote:
> Sometimes it takes weeks, months, before someone pick up your patch on
> LKML. So please wait.

I know, I saw a patch from two years ago get picked up just yesterday.

> In the mean time, check that you use git format-patch and that git
> send-email, *especially* git send-email, is able to send an email
> with the proper format (check From:, To:, Subject: etc.).

Yup, I did all that.. used mutt, my response was Signed-off,
everything.  But at the same time I was wondering if I did the
Subject: correctly since I was trying to make a valid [PATCH] subject
line while also including my Eudyptula id too.

> And you could have a look to http://lwn.net/Articles/599231/ "Taking
> the Eudyptula Challenge" for entertainment (wait, what, you're not yet
> a LWN.net subscriber ?).

I am a LWN subscriber actually.. but I'm sure that has nothing to do
with my brain's lack of delayed gratification software :)


-- 
Greg Donald



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