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

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Date:	Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:17:52 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Cc:	Mark Einon <mark.einon@...il.com>, gregkh@...e.de,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	o.hartmann@...ovital.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] staging: et131x: Remove redundant replica loopback
 code

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:08:34 +0300
Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com> 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 ;)

Alan
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