From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SYSFS: Fix return values for sysdev_store_{ulong,int}
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:35:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081016133530.1024528d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081013100303.GA32199@basil.nowhere.org>
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:03:03 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> SYSFS: Fix return values for sysdev_store_{ulong,int}
>
> Always return the full size instead of the consumed
> length of the string in sysdev_store_{ulong,int}
>
> This avoids EINVAL errors in some echo versions.
That sounds fairly serious. Is this a regression or are those versions
of echo really ancient, or...?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-16 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-13 10:03 [PATCH] SYSFS: Fix return values for sysdev_store_{ulong,int} Andi Kleen
2008-10-16 20:35 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-10-17 6:25 ` Andi Kleen
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