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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH, RFC] Add file describing rules for submitti

Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH, RFC] Add file describing rules for submitting patches
From: Jan Kiszka
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:43:21 +0200
M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <49EB55D8.7020903@xxxxxx>
>             Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx> writes:
> : Blue Swirl wrote:
> : > Hi,
> : > 
> : > I gathered a few common complaints about patch submission, hopefully
> : > not too much affected by my consumption of small amounts of various
> : > alcoholic substances.
> : 
> : Don't drink and patch. Oh, wait, this was: "Don't drink and derive!" So
> : this is probably ok.
> : 
> : > 
> : > Comments, objections?
> : 
> : SP3.2: If you only attach, pleeeease don't use base64 encoding etc. And
> : there should be no maintainer exception...
> 
> How can you attach a patch with MIME and not do that?

Mime doesn't imply base64. Binary data enforces base64. Otherwise plain
7bit encoding is fine, and at least my probably rarely used mail client
is no longer skeptical about the printability of the attachment.

Jan

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