[PATCH 1/1] net/fec: do not pass NULL dev to DMA API

Dong Aisheng-B29396 B29396 at freescale.com
Sat Apr 2 04:40:00 EDT 2011


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem at davemloft.net]
> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 4:36 PM
> To: liu.h.jason at gmail.com
> Cc: Guo Shawn-R65073; netdev at vger.kernel.org; Dong Aisheng-B29396; linux-
> arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net/fec: do not pass NULL dev to DMA API
> 
> From: Jason Liu <liu.h.jason at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 16:35:19 +0800
> 
> > 2011/4/2 Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at freescale.com>:
> >> Hi David,
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 12:57:14AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >>>
> >>> First, your patches never make it to the mailing list because the
> >>> list server rejects your postings, due to the fact that there are
> >>> syntax errors in your email headers:
> >>>
> >>> Illegal-Object:       Syntax error in From: address found on
> vger.kernel.org:
> >>>       From:   Aisheng.Dong<b29396 at freescale.com>
> >>>                                   ^-missing end of mailbox
> >>>
> >> Yes, we were aware of that the mail did not get distributed by vger
> >> list.  But we do not know why.  Thanks for telling.
> >>
> >> I'm not quite sure about the "^" indication.  Is it telling that
> >> there should be a space between display name and mail address?
> >
> > We should not use A.B <>, instead should use A B <>.
> 
> Yes, this is also true.
> 
> Characters such as "." must not appear in email headers in this context
> unless protected by double quotes.
Thanks a lot David.
This issue has bothered me a lot and finally the root cause is found.

For the patch I just found it was already fixed in your 2.6.x -next tree.
Thanks for the info.

Regards
Aisheng




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