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Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 08:01:42 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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On Thu, 10 May 2018 20:13:31 +0800
Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com> wrote:

> I appreciate the reply.
> 
> But why bother having a subject line at all if it is going to be 
> mechanically enforced that nothing in it is allowed to be "useful"? 
> That really doesn't make sense does it.


It was done because there were lots of clueless patches showing
up on the driver development list which had useless subject
lines.