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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-02-04 07:58:52 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-02-04 07:58:52 -0800
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.
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.