Re: [PATCH 1/18] 2.6.17.9 perfmon2 patch for review: introduction

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:11:32 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:58:57AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
Padding with zeros makes it even more useful:

[PATCH 00/17]
[PATCH 01/17]
...
[PATCH 17/17]

To be honest I utterly hate that convention

It's so they'll correctly alphasort at the recipient's end.

I suspect most mailers sort by date and not by subject anyway.


Emails arrive out-of-order.

I used to have a `sleep 10' in my patch-bomb script to fix that, but half
an hour is too long to be sitting there hoping the DSL stays up, the kernel
stays up and that the familial hair-drier+iron+air-conditioner conspiracy
doesn't strike.
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