Annoying ML complains about "suspicious header"

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com
Fri Mar 7 08:55:44 EST 2014


On Mar 05, David Woodhouse wrote:
[..]
> The complexity with the threading check is that it has false positives
> with patch sets, because we *expect* those to be in a thread but without
> the normal 'Re:' in the subject. The check already does have an
> exemption if it finds [Pp][Aa][Tt][Cc][Hh] in the subject — Rafał,
> looking at the four messages in the moderation queue from you, if you'd
> just said [RFC PATCH] and [WIP PATCH] instead of just [RFC] and [WIP]
> alone, then they'd have sailed straight through.
> 

FWIW, the LAKML also has this rule. IIRC, I've been bitten by it.
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Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
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