From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>,
dtor_core@ameritech.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 08:53:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020101075339.GA467@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e47339105072814125d0901d9@mail.gmail.com>
Hi!
> > > 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.
Please, NO! echo -n is the right thing to do, and users will eventually learn.
We are not going to add such workarounds all over the kernel...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-05 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-25 4:09 [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace Jon Smirl
2005-07-25 4:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-07-25 14:28 ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-25 14:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-07-25 16:30 ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-26 0:00 ` Greg KH
2005-07-26 0:28 ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-26 0:30 ` Greg KH
2005-07-26 0:56 ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-26 1:54 ` Greg KH
2005-07-26 3:15 ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-26 3:29 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-07-28 2:05 ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-28 3:46 ` Greg KH
2005-07-28 3:59 ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-28 4:05 ` Greg KH
2005-07-28 4:49 ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-28 5:49 ` Greg KH
2005-07-28 7:04 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2005-07-28 12:54 ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-28 13:09 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-07-28 13:16 ` Paulo Marques
2005-07-28 18:09 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2005-07-28 19:03 ` Greg KH
2005-07-28 19:57 ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-28 20:22 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2005-07-28 20:27 ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-29 18:50 ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-06 0:42 ` Greg KH
2005-08-06 3:48 ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-21 22:21 ` Jon Smirl
2005-07-28 21:10 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-07-28 21:12 ` Jon Smirl
2002-01-01 7:53 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-08-05 13:32 ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-05 18:01 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-05 18:14 ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-05 18:20 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-05 18:47 ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-05 20:07 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-05 20:33 ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-06 9:39 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-08-07 18:50 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-07 18:47 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-07 20:17 ` Jon Smirl
2005-08-07 21:06 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-05 22:31 ` David Weinehall
2005-07-28 21:17 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-07-28 12:52 ` Jon Smirl
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-30 6:04 [PATCH] driver core: add bus_find_device & driver_find_device functions Greg KH
2005-06-30 6:04 ` [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace Greg KH
2005-06-30 6:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-06-30 6:29 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 5:12 [RFC] bind and unbind drivers from userspace through sysfs Greg KH
2005-06-24 5:14 ` [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace Greg KH
2005-06-24 15:57 ` Patrick Mochel
2005-06-25 3:27 ` Greg KH
2005-06-25 4:16 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-06-25 9:39 ` Michael Tokarev
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