On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:09 PM, peter fuerst <post@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Sergei, > > On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:56:36 +0400 >> From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxx> >> To: post@xxxxxxxx >> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, >> attilio.fiandrotti@xxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Impact video driver for SGI Indigo2 >> >> ... >>> >>> framebuffer device. Without the support of PCI & AGP. >> >> It looks like the patch is spoiled as I'm seeing two spaces at the start >> of line when looking at the message source. > > hmmm, that's a strange problem. The two spaces are not in the diff-file > read into the eMail and are not displayed by the MUA (pine 4.64). But > indeed, where's a leading space in the diff, there's an additional space > inserted into the eMail-body. Have to find out the best way to suppress > this behaviour... In my experience the linux kernel folk are very particular about format of patches, you should probably use 'git' and generate the patch with 'git format-patch'. If you have not done so, please see the files Documentation/Submit* under linux kernel sources. JC.
