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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Impact video driver for SGI Indigo2
From:   "Jayachandran C." <jayachandranc@netlogicmicro.com>
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On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:09 PM, peter fuerst <post@pfrst.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Sergei,
>
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:56:36 +0400
>> From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@mvista.com>
>> To: post@pfrst.de
>> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org,
>>    attilio.fiandrotti@gmail.com
>> 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.