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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 19:32:16 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Avi <avi.kp.137@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceMisc.c-checkpatch
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Please send this instead of as an attachment.  Send it to yourself first
and apply it with 'git am'.  Resend when that works.

> From: AVI <avi@avi-VPCCW15FG.(none)>
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's wrong.

The subject is too long and not the right format.  It should be:

Subject: [PATCH] Staging: bcm: white space complaint with casting

Put the exact complaint in the body of the email.

Add a blank line before the Signed-off-by line.

regards,
dan carpenter