Re: [PATCH] Fix incorrect use of loose in wext.c

From: Nick Andrew
Date: Sun Dec 07 2008 - 18:56:24 EST


On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 11:56:55PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Nick Andrew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:08:09 +1100
>
> > Fix incorrect use of loose in wext.c
> >
> > It should be 'lose', not 'loose'.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks Nick.

Thanks for your help.

> BTW, your original posting of this patch didn't make it to the mailing
> lists because there were people's names on the CC: list which had a
> "." character in them, and in such cases these names must be fully
> surrounded by double quotes, otherwise it is an SMTP syntax error.
>
> Please be mindful of this in the future.

Yes, it looks like "stg mail" doesn't do address quoting on the names
which were added by grabbing Signed-off-by: lines. LKML rejected the
post but the other recipients probably received it, meaning they end
up with two copies (sorry folks). I'll be watching out for that in
future patches.

Nick.
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