Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: Only encode UTF-8 quoted printable mail headers

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Jul 24 2018 - 07:19:59 EST


On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 7:38 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 17:03 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

>> >
>> > The one exception seems to be arch/s390/kernel/ebcdic.c, which apparently
>> > uses 0x81 bytes as an excape before characters ISO-8859-1 characters with
>> > the high bit set. I don't know what that encoding is called, but I managed
>> > to manually convert it into something useful.
>>
>> Yes, we should convert everything to UTF-8.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Can you send a patch or a script for Linus to apply?

I sent a series of four patches now, one for each type of change I did.

Arnd