Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Thu Jul 28 2005 - 16:23:44 EST


Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 23:12 schrieb Jon Smirl:
> On 7/28/05, Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 21:57 schrieb Jon Smirl:
> > > New, simplified version of the sysfs whitespace strip patch...
> >
> > Could you tell me why you don't just fail the operation if malformed
> > input is supplied?
>
> Leading/trailing white space should be allowed. For example echo
> appends '\n' unless you know to use -n. It is easier to fix the kernel
> than to teach everyone to use -n.

Why? If you can do it in user space, do so.

Regards
Oliver
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/