Re: [PATCH 17/11]Optimize the upload speed for PPP connection.

From: William Allen Simpson
Date: Tue Nov 17 2009 - 05:20:30 EST


David Miller wrote:
Your patch is broken, please don't wate my time like this.

+ git apply --check --whitespace=error-all diff
error: patch failed: drivers/net/ppp_async.c:36
error: drivers/net/ppp_async.c: patch does not apply

What David may have meant, had he followed Documentation/ManagementStyle
or had any project management skills what-so-ever, is that you need to
follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches more carefully.

Look at 15) The canonical patch format

[PATCH 17/11] makes no sense, you don't have 11 patches, and the 17th
patch of 11 can never exist.

Need a better "subsystem: summary phrase", perhaps
"net: PPP buffer too small for higher speed connections"

A marker line containing simply "---".

And your trailer boilerplate badly breaks the system, because it's
missing the SMTP email standard "--" line in front of it.

You'll get nicer formatting with 'git format-patch -o ~ HEAD~1' after you
do a 'git commit -a' on your git tree.

It takes some time, even for a simple 1 line fix like this....

Hope that helps.
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