Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/11]Optimize the upload speed for PPP connection.

From: Jarek Poplawski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:14:54 +0000

On 17-11-2009 11:20, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
>> Your patch is broken, please don't wate my time like this.
>>
>> + git apply --check --whitespace=error-all diff
>> error: patch failed: drivers/net/ppp_async.c:36
>> error: drivers/net/ppp_async.c: patch does not apply
>>
> What David may have meant, had he followed Documentation/ManagementStyle
> or had any project management skills what-so-ever, is that you need to
> follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches more carefully.

I think this time it was only about a missing tab ;-)

Jarek P.

> 
> Look at 15) The canonical patch format
> 
> [PATCH 17/11] makes no sense, you don't have 11 patches, and the 17th
> patch of 11 can never exist.
> 
> Need a better "subsystem: summary phrase", perhaps
>    "net: PPP buffer too small for higher speed connections"
> 
> A marker line containing simply "---".
> 
> And your trailer boilerplate badly breaks the system, because it's
> missing the SMTP email standard "--" line in front of it.
> 
> You'll get nicer formatting with 'git format-patch -o ~ HEAD~1' after you
> do a 'git commit -a' on your git tree.
> 
> It takes some time, even for a simple 1 line fix like this....
> 
> Hope that helps.
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