[wwdocs PATCH RFA] contribute: link to kernel doc about patch email

[wwdocs PATCH RFA] contribute: link to kernel doc about patch email

[Jason Merrill]

It occurred to me that it would be useful to link to the kernel's documentation
for emailing patches.  OK?

---
 htdocs/contribute.html | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/htdocs/contribute.html b/htdocs/contribute.html
index c985b87d..60bcf3f8 100644
--- a/htdocs/contribute.html
+++ b/htdocs/contribute.html
@@ -237,6 +237,11 @@ changing.)  For further information on our source repository, see
 the <a href="git.html">Anonymous read-only Git access</a> and <a
 href="gitwrite.html">Read-write Git access</a> pages.</p>
 
+<p>Many mail clients break patches pasted into the message body, primarily by
+wrapping long lines.  See
+<a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/email-clients.html">
+the Linux kernel documentation</a> for ways to work around this.
+
 <p>(Everything listed here still applies if you can check in the patch
 without further approval under the <a
 href="gitwrite.html#policies">GCC write access policies</a>, except

base-commit: bc2d2c50bcb470c7020526c3a628267f84509aeb
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2.31.1

Re: [wwdocs PATCH RFA] contribute: link to kernel doc about patch email

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2022, Jason Merrill wrote:
> It occurred to me that it would be useful to link to the kernel's 
> documentation for emailing patches.  OK?

That's a great idea, thank you, Jason!

(Not strictly required by HTML 5, but I'd close the paragraph with </p>
like we generally do.)

Gerald