Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:37:09 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET v2 driver-core-next] kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement synchronous self-removal |
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On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 05:52:30PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jan 2014, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:51:10PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > Hey, Alan. > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:46:10AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > The SUBJECT lines in your patch emails don't mention the version > > > > number. That is, they just say "[PATCH]", not "[PATCH v2]" or "[PATCH > > > > v3]". This makes it very difficult for me to tell which messages to > > > > read. > > > > > > Hmm... they're all threaded. I add version tags when posting > > > incremental patches but usually don't bother with it when posting a > > > new version of the whole series. After all, some patches are get > > > updated without explicitly given a new version for refrehses and stuff > > > so it's not like you can determine everything based on subjects only. > > Greg, what do you prefer in this situation?
If the threading is correct, just as Tejun did is the best and easiest for me to handle, as I can just delete the whole set of old patches and use the new ones.
> > > > (Reading them in order doesn't work, because my computer mixes up the > > > > order of messages when it downloads a large bunch from the email > > > > server. It's kind of annoying...) > > > > > > And they aren't threaded? > > > > They were all threaded for me, perhaps Alan needs a better email client :) > > Undoubtedly I do. My current client is embarassingly old.
There's nothing wrong with using old mail clients, mutt is very old, it just works really well.
greg k-h
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