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

[Aaro Koskinen]

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.