linux-kernel - Re: Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/x86/boot.txt:payload length was changed to payload

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Date:	Sun, 4 Jan 2009 13:57:13 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Baodong Chen <chenbdchenbd@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, trivial@...nel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/x86/boot.txt:payload length was
	changed to payload_length


* Baodong Chen <chenbdchenbd@...il.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> >
> > * Baodong Chen <chenbdchenbd@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> >>  Documentation/x86/boot.txt:payload length was changed to payload_length
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Baodong Chen <[email]chenbdchenbd@...il.com[email]>
> >>
> >> ---
> >>  Documentation/x86/boot.txt |    2 +-
> >>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > looks good but the patch was whitespace damaged (all tabs were spaces and
> > there were linewraps as well), please check
> > Documentation/email-clients.txt and resend the patch. Thanks,
> >
> >        Ingo
> 
> I referred to Documentation/email-clients.txt:Gmail and resent the 
> patch. I am a newbie,if i made any mistake,please do me a favor and help 
> me.Thanks!

it's OK, and your resubmission was better - but it still had a linewrap 
problem (i was able to fix that up manually).

this bit:

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Protocol 2.07:        (Kernel 2.6.24) Added paravirtualised
boot protocol.
                and KEEP_SEGMENTS flag in load_flags.

[3 lines]

should have been:

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Protocol 2.07:        (Kernel 2.6.24) Added paravirtualised boot protocol.
                and KEEP_SEGMENTS flag in load_flags.

[2 lines]

If you post from gmail it might make sense to send patches as MIME 
attachments, we can process them just fine. (as long as you send patches 
that go via -tip - other maintainers have different policies regarding 
MIME attachments)

	Ingo
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