Comment 67 for bug 1167301

Till, thanks for the URL.

Unfortunately, attachments are silently discarded before being posted to the archive so only the direct subscriber would get the kernel.org format information, versus wider audience. Not all of upstream would be directly subscribed, some just check the mailing list when someone pings them or whenever they feel like (I personally do the latter as I don't like getting 1000s of e-mails in my inbox daily).

Also, it notes how:
This is a kernel regression from 3.8.0-7-generic to 3.8.0-19.

Some in upstream are not receptive to distro/downstream kernel mentioning, will stop reading at that point, and move on.