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Subject[PATCH] Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches
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Applies to 2.6.24-rc8-git2

I was struggling to get my email-client no to mangle my patch files,
and I didn't find enough information in the SubmittingPatches file.
By looking for more information on the web, I eventually found the
email-clients.txt file, and it answered all my needs

This patch adds a reference to email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches,
and Mozilla related information which is no longer accurate
(as opposed to the details found in email-clients.txt).

This should be helpful for people sending their first patches,
or not sending patches on a frequent basis.

Michael.

--
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>

diff -Naur linux-2.6.24-rc8-git2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches linux-2.6.24-rc8-git2-sp/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
--- linux-2.6.24-rc8-git2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches 2008-01-17 09:48:56.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc8-git2-sp/Documentation/SubmittingPatches 2008-01-18 10:29:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -220,20 +220,8 @@
Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask
you to re-send them using MIME.

-
-WARNING: Some mailers like Mozilla send your messages with
----- message header ----
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
----- message header ----
-The problem is that "format=flowed" makes some of the mailers
-on receiving side to replace TABs with spaces and do similar
-changes. Thus the patches from you can look corrupted.
-
-To fix this just make your mozilla defaults/pref/mailnews.js file to look like:
-pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false); // RFC 2646=======
-pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);
-
-
+See Documentation/email-clients.txt for hints about configuring
+your e-mail client so that it sends your patches untouched.

8) E-mail size.

--
Michael Opdenacker, Free Electrons
Free Embedded Linux Training Materials
on http://free-electrons.com/training
(More than 1500 pages!)


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