On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:38:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So my prefernce is _overwhelmingly_ for the format that Andrew uses > (which is partly explained by the fact that I am used to it, but > also by the fact that I've asked for Andrew to make trivial changes > to match my usage). > > That canonical format is: > > Subject: [PATCH 001/123] [<area>:] <explanation> > > together with the first line of the body being a > > From: Original Author <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > followed by an empty line and then the body of the explanation.
Having a script to check people get this right before sending it via email would be a nice thing to put into scripts/ or probably Documentation/ perhaps? Does such a thing already exist? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
