Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 581737] Re: Can't read e1000 NIC EEPROM on NetBSD guest

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 02:21:21PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 13.06.2010 um 07:16 schrieb Izumi Tsutsui:
> 
> >>Please email the patch to address@hidden via git-send-email.
> >Isn't the following post enough? What's incomplete on this?
> >http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-06/msg00449.html
> 
> That is still not a proper git-format-patch patch, it is missing
> among others the From: and Subject: lines and, likely, a more
> detailled description of what it does and why, for maintainers to be
> able to apply it with the git-am tool.
> 
> But first it needs to be reviewed and ack'ed by people knowing that
> part of the code, and such review is done by inline patches on qemu-
> devel mailing list, not by HTTP links to bugtrackers (there are
> simply too many patches). The git-send-email tool assures that the
> format is not damaged by your favorite mail agent.
> 

Can you imagine how frustrating this is to someone who's just trying
to get a simple bug fix fed upstream?

I find it quite unreasonable that one should be forced through
this many hoops just to get a trivial patch even considered.

        Jonathan Kollasch