Thank you Johannes for taking the time to spot the wrapped line. I did actually find that document...after I sent my email. I'll resend from a saner mail service. Regards Vince On 12/4/19, Johannes Stezenbach <js@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 08:40:59PM +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote: >> >> https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/60186/ >> https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/59979/ >> >> but it doesn't look right when it gets there. For some reason, >> the last hunk of the patch is included with the patch description. >> This was why I resent it the first time, I thought I must have >> messed up the formatting. >> >> Admittedly I'm sending from gmail's web interface but I have taken >> some care to get the text correctly formatted and patchwork did the >> same thing with it twice, so I'm starting to wonder if there's an issue >> with patchwork. > ... >> @@ -539,7 +546,7 @@ build - Builds the media drivers without needing >> to compile a new kernel > > This line seems to be wrapped. > > Quoting > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst > > Gmail (Web GUI) > *************** > > Does not work for sending patches. > > Gmail web client converts tabs to spaces automatically. > > At the same time it wraps lines every 78 chars with CRLF style line > breaks > although tab2space problem can be solved with external editor. > > Another problem is that Gmail will base64-encode any message that has a > non-ASCII character. That includes things like European names. > > > HTH, > Johannes >
