Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756513AbcKBReV (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2016 13:34:21 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:36765 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756341AbcKBReU (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2016 13:34:20 -0400 Subject: Re: Failing of the script get_maintainer.pl To: Joe Perches , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <581A1645.70700@oracle.com> <1478105885.23018.47.camel@perches.com> From: Vaishali Thakkar Message-ID: <581A2387.3000706@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 23:03:59 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1478105885.23018.47.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 30 On Wednesday 02 November 2016 10:28 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2016-11-02 at 22:07 +0530, Vaishali Thakkar wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The script get_maintainer.pl fails with the following message/warning: >> >> Unrecognized character \xA0; marked by <-- HERE after <-- HERE near column 1 at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 277. >> >> This seems to be because of the commit b67071653d3fc9f9b73aab3e7978f060728bf392. >> >> Any idea about the solution(s)? > > Unfortunately, Evolution is a horribly broken email client > for sending patches. > > It's been fixed at least in Andrew Morton's mm, and it > should be in -next soonish. > > You could do a sed until then: > > $ sed -i -e "s/\xA0/ /g" scripts/get_maintainer.pl Ok, makes sense. Thanks. > -- Vaishali