linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2] x86: Remove dma32_reserve

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Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:18:45 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] x86: Remove dma32_reserve_bootmem

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:54:14 -0700
>> Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/12/2011 10:47 AM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
>>> > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:20:48 -0700
>>> > Yinghai Lu<yinghai@...nel.org>  wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >> That is workaround for holding dma32 buf when early bootmem could use up
>>> >> those range on system that have lots of RAM.
>>> >>
>>> >> Now x86 is using memblock, and even nobootmem wrapper do top-down allocation.
>>> >>
>>> >> So We could remove those not needed code now.
>>> >>
>>> >> -v2: rebase on pci-next
>>> >>
>>> >> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu<yinghai@...nel.org>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Hm, still didn't apply cleanly, I guess the patch got corrupted.  I
>>> > fixed it up by hand and applied to linux-next though, thanks.
>>>
>>> sorry for that. looks like recent thunderbird upgrade convert TAB to space..
>>
>> Thanks for checking.  I wonder why every mailer (and some MTAs!) feel
>> the need to molest message content so thoroughly...
>>
>
> looks like patchwork and LKML have tab instead of spaces.
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/701342/
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/12/358
>
> also it is very interesting: in thunderbox inbox/send box, some mails
> are viewed with TAB as spaces.
> but source does have TAB.
>

while using thunderbird 3.1.8 to send patch, need to set

mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed

to false.

otherwise viewer could show TAB as spaces.

Yinghai
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