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

[Andrew Morton]

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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