Re: [PATCH 00/10] staging: comedi: tidy up driver attach/detach

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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 04:55:26PM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> 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.

Latest versions of Exchange do have an option to not mangle the body of
the emails so that patches will come through properly.

Talk to your admin to turn that on if you can.

greg k-h
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