Re: [PATCH v4] Staging: rtlwifi: Remove unnecessary 'out of memory' message.

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 09:48:15PM +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> 

Please turn html email off in your email client, the kernel mailing
lists will reject it.

> On Monday 11 September 2017 10:02 PM, Greg KH wrote:
 
>     This patch is sent corrupted (leading space is gone), and git doesn't
>     like it.  Can you please fix it up and resend?
> 
> Hello sir,
> 
> If i am not removing the leading spaces then checkpatch is showing me errors
> for trailing whitespace.

That is correct.

> But there are no leading spaces present in the file which i have modified.
> When i convert my changes into the patch, the whitespace errors are shown up.
> Can you please help me with this to make me understand why this is happening?

The problem isn't in the original file, but in the patch format itself
that you sent.  What ever tool you used, stripped off the leading space,
making it impossible to apply.  So please fix that.

Try emailing the patch to yourself and applying it to ensure you are
doing this correctly.

thanks,

greg k-h