Re: [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: SDIO/MMC cleanups

["Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 05/06/2011 06:07 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Michael J Gruber<git@drmicha.warpmail.net>  writes:
>
>> Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 06.05.2011 16:37:
>>> "Arend van Spriel"<arend@broadcom.com>  writes:
>>>
>>>> The git documentation on the git am command is not very elaborate. I
>>>> investigated the issue and checked following:
>>>> 1. line 135 in dhd_sdio.c in the patch does match line 135 in my
>>>> checked out branch.
>>> Does it exactly match, or does it merely visually match if you ignore tabs
>>> and spaces munged by somebody between the state of the file submitter
>>> committed and grunder.eml file you stored?
>> Junio, he reported the hashes to match! Puzzling. Or a MUA doing things
>> to the .eml.
> The latter is exactly what I meant.  The mailchain leading to the
> receiver's mailbox would not adjust the hash recorded in the patch when it
> munges whitespaces.

Tried patch -p1 < grundler.eml. That gives info at which line it fails. 
I believe we have to blame Thunderbird here as you suspected. It placed 
a line break because to line was too long. Crap! Why do tools have to be 
"smart"?

Gr. AvS