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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] qla4xxx: Capture minidump for ISP82XX on firmware
 failure
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 05:17:36 -0500
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On 05/04/2012 05:00 AM, Vikas Chaudhary wrote:
>> # echo 6 > /sys/class/scsi_host/host7/device/fw_dump

echo adds a newline by default. If you do echo -n it does not.

Does simple_strtol handle that but kstrol not handle it?

>>>From above logs looks like sysfs attribute reading some extra garbage
>> >characters because of which
>> >'kstrtol()' fails but in same case 'simple_strtol()' works fine.
>> >