Re: [PATCHSET v2 driver-core-next] kernfs, sysfs, driver-core:implement synchronous self-removal

[Alan Stern]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2014, Greg KH wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:51:10PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hey, Alan.
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:46:10AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > The SUBJECT lines in your patch emails don't mention the version
> > > number.  That is, they just say "[PATCH]", not "[PATCH v2]" or "[PATCH
> > > v3]". This makes it very difficult for me to tell which messages to
> > > read.
> > 
> > Hmm... they're all threaded.  I add version tags when posting
> > incremental patches but usually don't bother with it when posting a
> > new version of the whole series.  After all, some patches are get
> > updated without explicitly given a new version for refrehses and stuff
> > so it's not like you can determine everything based on subjects only.

Greg, what do you prefer in this situation?

> > > (Reading them in order doesn't work, because my computer mixes up the 
> > > order of messages when it downloads a large bunch from the email 
> > > server.  It's kind of annoying...)
> > 
> > And they aren't threaded?
> 
> They were all threaded for me, perhaps Alan needs a better email client :)

Undoubtedly I do.  My current client is embarassingly old.

Alan Stern

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