[PATCH v3 12/11] Fix incorrect encoding of relaxed instructions (PR18303)

[Sean Silva]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:40 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 18:10 -0700, Sean Silva wrote:
> > FYI, the convention on the LLVM mailing lists is to attach patches
> > rather than have them inline. Also, all patches in a patch series
> > should be attached to the same message instead of being in multiple
> > messages.
> >
> >
> > The reason for this is that most community members' mail clients
> > (i.e., almost all "normal" mail clients) don't handle threading
> > properly (and tend to mangle the bodies, etc.), so the Linux-like
> > conventions (i.e. what git's email functionality does by default)
> > don't work well. I believe it's just a matter of passing a flag to git
> > to change it's behavior.
>
> Thank you for the information.
>
> But really, if you're going to tell me I should pander to people with
> broken tools instead of assuming (and attempting to ensure) sanity, then
> surely that would mean I shouldn't be doing any of this?


Like any community convention, nobody is forcing you to follow it. However
be aware that people on this list are accustomed to (and presumably have
optimized their workflow for) emails following the community convention, so
doing things differently will likely inconvenience them.

-- Sean Silva


> Instead, I
> should just have continued writing in .code32 assembler; translating it
> in my head from the .code16 I *really* want...
>
> It's not as if threading is hard :)
>
> --
> dwmw2
>
>
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