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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-02-04 10:58:52 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-02-04 10:58:52 -0500
commitf5bb3a5e9dcdb8435471562b6cada89525cf4df1 (patch)
tree7b7cf9b90bacd0e2fe07cb3387516e9243f1ab66 /Documentation/SubmittingPatches
parent9853832c49dc1685587abeb4e1decd4be690d256 (diff)
parent1560a79a2c2ea0c3826150da8029991d685de990 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (79 commits) Jesper Juhl is the new trivial patches maintainer Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches fs/binfmt_elf.c: spello fix do_invalidatepage() comment typo fix Documentation/filesystems/porting fixes typo fixes in net/core/net_namespace.c typo fix in net/rfkill/rfkill.c typo fixes in net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c lib/: Spelling fixes kernel/: Spelling fixes include/scsi/: Spelling fixes include/linux/: Spelling fixes include/asm-m68knommu/: Spelling fixes include/asm-frv/: Spelling fixes fs/: Spelling fixes drivers/watchdog/: Spelling fixes drivers/video/: Spelling fixes drivers/ssb/: Spelling fixes drivers/serial/: Spelling fixes drivers/scsi/: Spelling fixes ...
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@@ -220,20 +220,8 @@ decreasing the likelihood of your MIME-attached change being accepted.
220Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask 220Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask
221you to re-send them using MIME. 221you to re-send them using MIME.
222 222
223 223See Documentation/email-clients.txt for hints about configuring
224WARNING: Some mailers like Mozilla send your messages with 224your e-mail client so that it sends your patches untouched.
225---- message header ----
226Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
227---- message header ----
228The problem is that "format=flowed" makes some of the mailers
229on receiving side to replace TABs with spaces and do similar
230changes. Thus the patches from you can look corrupted.
231
232To fix this just make your mozilla defaults/pref/mailnews.js file to look like:
233pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false); // RFC 2646=======
234pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);
235
236
237 225
2388) E-mail size. 2268) E-mail size.
239 227