Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: fix random memory scribbling bug

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> 
> > 2) I have requested multiple times that you avoid MIME...
> 
> It's the first time that you complain about Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> attachments.

These proper text encodings are easy to _apply_, because the raw email is 
uncorrupted. 

However, attachments are still broken for a very fundamental reason: 
basically no email client will ever quote them on replies. Which means 
that if somebody has commentary about some specific part of the patch, the 
attachement is _totally_ the wrong thing to do.

In other words, there's a reason I encourage people VERY STRONGLY to use 
in-line patches. If you have a broken mailer that corrupts whitespace, 
please just fix it.

                Linus