[SPAM]Re: [PATCH V9 0/2] media: i2c: Add support for DW9768 VCM

[Dongchun Zhu]

Hi Sakari,

On Thu, 2020-07-30 at 19:39 +0300, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Dongchun,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 07:06:05PM +0800, Dongchun Zhu wrote:
> > Hi Sakari,
> > 
> > Sorry I just sent email using outlook where default format is HTML, now
> > I use evolution, one Linux mail client that I used to send upstream
> > patch previously.
> > 
> > On Thu, 2020-07-02 at 08:34 +0300, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > > Dongchun,
> > > 
> > > Please don't send HTML e-mail to Linux kernel related mailing lists.
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 03:48:56AM +0000, Dongchun Zhu (朱东春) wrote:
> > > >  Hi Sakari,
> > > > 
> > > >  Sorry to bother you again, but I am so confused about the questions you raised.
> > > >  I just synced mainline: 5.8-rc3 tarball from https://www.kernel.org/, on which I ran the git am <patch> command.
> > > >  The patch-applying process shows no error.
> > > >  -----------------8<-------------------
> > > >  [mtk15013 at mtkslt307 linux]$git apply --check media-i2c-Add-support-for-DW9768-VCM.patch
> > > >  [mtk15013 at mtkslt307 linux]$git am media-i2c-Add-support-for-DW9768-VCM.patch
> > > >  Applying: media: dt-bindings: media: i2c: Document DW9768 bindings
> > > >  Applying: media: i2c: dw9768: Add DW9768 VCM driver
> > > >  -----------------8<-------------------
> > > > 
> > > >  On the other hand, I also compared dongwoon,dw9768.yaml file with other media device dt-bindings(like imx219.yaml and ov8856.yaml).
> > > >  It seems there are no apparent differences between them.
> > > >  Especially, the sentence '# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)' shall be common.
> > > >  I dunno why here dongwoon,dw9768.yaml reports trailing whitespace warnings while ov8856.yaml is silent.
> > > > 
> > > >  For the patch failed on MAINTAINERS, I am still curious what's wrong.
> > > >  In fact, I locally have run parse-maintainers.pl script to check MAINTAINERS file before submitting patch.
> > > >  The result also reports no errors.
> > > >  -----------------8<-------------------
> > > >  [mtk15013 at mtkslt307 linux]$perl scripts/parse-maintainers.pl
> > > >  [mtk15013 at mtkslt307 linux]$ls
> > > >  -----------------8<-------------------
> > > > 
> > > >  As to Base64 encoding, I checked each patch file again. They are all encoded in UTF-8.
> > > >  As https://www.base64encode.org/ says, for an example, '77' in ASCII format would be changed to 'T' in Based64-encoded format.
> > > >  This means there shall be messy code if we adpoting Based64-encoded format.
> > > >  But I cannot see garbled messages in the current patches.
> > > > 
> > > >  The DW9768 serials-patch is attached.
> > > >  @Tomasz @Andy @Rob could anyone help try to see whether the patch can be cherry-picked on Linux master branch or not?
> > > >  Patchwork link:
> > > >  https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11633291/
> > > 
> > > Both of the patches appear to contain only ASCII characters.
> > > 
> > > I did some research on this. It seems that the base64 encoded message body
> > > does have carriage returns, in both cases. Git am does not attempt to
> > > remove them in that case, but Patchwork does. Hence the files are fine if
> > > you download them from Patchwork --- where the mbox files have neither
> > > carriage returns nor base64 encoding.
> > > 
> > > What does the file command say about the patch files produced by git
> > > format-patch? My guess is that something in between your local computer and
> > > LMML (and other mail servers) base64 encodes the message body. But where
> > > are the carriage returns added? Nevertheless they seem to be added before
> > > the base64 conversion.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hm... I used the file command to check the diff patch generated from git
> > format-patch and that downloaded from Patchwork, they are both ASCII
> > text.
> 
> That's because Patchwork appears to be removing the carriage returns. git
> does not if the content is base64 encoded.
> 
> Your e-mail setup simply appears to be broken. I'd suggest trying to send
> the patches encoded in base64 as a workaround. git send-email uses
> sendemail.transferEncoding configuration option for this.
> 

I checked my local git configuration by using "git config --list", it
seems the "sendemail.transferEncoding" configuration variable is not
set, also "git send-email --transfer-encoding" is not set when
submitting patch.

From my understanding, if both the option "--transfer-encoding=xxx" and
the configuration value "sendemail.transferEncoding" are unspecified,
the transfer encoding to be used to send the message over SMTP may be
"auto".

Did you mean doing an experiment by enabling "base64" config for
transfer encoding as below?
"git config --global sendemail.transferEncoding base64" or
"git send-email --transfer-encoding=base64"