Re: [PATCH 4/6] staging: et131x: Remove redundant replica loopback code

[Mark Einon]

On 30 August 2011 11:17, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:08:34 +0300
> Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> This patch was sent with git-send-email but it's in base64 encoding.
>>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>>
>> Why did that happen?
>
> Presumably it got re-encoded because a mail system in the path between
> him and you decided it was traversing a 7bit path and helpfully
> reprocessed it to avoid corruption.
>
> If your mailer can't automatically handle utf-8/base64 perhaps you need a
> better one ;)

Maybe not - now you mention it, when git send-email got to this
particular patch, it did ask me if I wanted to use UTF-8, which it's
never done before.
I'm not aware of anything unusual I did with this patch set, but i've
just done a format-patch and git send-email again to get:

git send-email --to=mark.einon@xxxxxxxxx
0004-staging-et131x-Remove-redundant-replica-loopback-cod.patch
0004-staging-et131x-Remove-redundant-replica-loopback-cod.patch
The following files are 8bit, but do not declare a Content-Transfer-Encoding.
    0004-staging-et131x-Remove-redundant-replica-loopback-cod.patch
Which 8bit encoding should I declare [UTF-8]?

Not sure how that's happened.

Mark
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