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Message-Id: <20060823135652.b491468b.akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:56:52 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/18] 2.6.17.9 perfmon2 patch for review: introduction
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:11:32 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:58:57AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Padding with zeros makes it even more useful:
> > > >
> > > > [PATCH 00/17]
> > > > [PATCH 01/17]
> > > > ...
> > > > [PATCH 17/17]
> > >
> > > To be honest I utterly hate that convention
> >
> > It's so they'll correctly alphasort at the recipient's end.
>
> I suspect most mailers sort by date and not by subject anyway.
>
Emails arrive out-of-order.
I used to have a `sleep 10' in my patch-bomb script to fix that, but half
an hour is too long to be sitting there hoping the DSL stays up, the kernel
stays up and that the familial hair-drier+iron+air-conditioner conspiracy
doesn't strike.
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