Hi, On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:28:31PM +0000, Ian Abbott wrote: > On 2013-01-31 13:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:45:15AM +0000, Ian Abbott wrote: > >>That wasn't really the problem I was having, as I'd already given up > >>by the second patch. The problem was that all the tabs in the first > >>two patches had been expanded to spaces. The remaining 8 patches > >>never had that problem! [...] > >Perhaps something on your end is messing these up? > > It seems that way since the copies in <http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-January.txt.gz> > are fine. It's strange that only those two patches were affected, > and in all three copies! > > I am receiving the patches through a Microsoft Exchange server > though, and it does do strange things like re-encode all emails that > pass through it. (I bypass that server when sending patches to > prevent them all getting re-encoded as MIME quoted-printable.) Tab to space conversion is a known bug in Exchange Server. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945870 I recall it did other kind of random mangling to Linux patches as well, better just avoid it. A. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
