Re: [PATCH V2 0/7] kbuild: move scripts/basic/docproc.c to scripts/docproc.c

[Peter Foley]

On 4/29/2011 6:46 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:38:12 -0400 Peter Foley wrote:
> 
>> This patchset moves scripts/basic/docproc to scripts/docproc.
>> This causes docproc to only be built for *doc targets rather than every
>> time the kernel is compiled.
>>
>> Patches also attached as requested by Michal Marek.
> 
> 
> That's disappointing (the attachments).  Why was this requested?
> 
> See Documentation/CodingStyle, section 7:
> 
> "No MIME, no links, no compression, no attachments.  Just plain text."
> 
> 
> It also causes breakage in other people's patch merging/testing.
> E.g., I cannot save any one of these emails as I can with other patches
> and get a useful patch file.  Instead, the saved file contains lines like
> this (below) and each patch 2 times (inline and attachment).
> 
> --------------060706070408040606010200
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> 	name="kbuild-update-DocBook-Makefile-in-preperation-for-mo.patch"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> 	filename="kbuild-update-DocBook-Makefile-in-preperation-for-mo.patch"
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> ~Randy
> *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***

See https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/29/89 for the attachment request.
My current email client (thunderbird) seems to mangle any patches that I send.
If anybody can suggest an email client that doesn't mangle patches I'll be happy to try it.

Thanks,

Peter
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