From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Excess spaces in sysfs files
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:22:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040228002206.GE13580@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <403D12BC.40209@reactivated.net>
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:25:16PM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 1. Should these spaces be here? Are devices really identifying themselves
> with spaces on the end? Or is this an issue with sysfs/similar.
This is a device issue. Seems like a lot of them have spaces in odd
places. Nothing sysfs or udev can do about it.
Go complain to the device manufacturer :)
> 2. Should udev trim whitespace from the end of SYSFS{..} values
> (files), so that keys such as
> SYSFS{model} = "iPod"
> would match a file containing
> "iPod "
No, I don't think so. That's one reason udevinfo was created to show
you that those spaces are really there.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2004-02-25 21:25 Excess spaces in sysfs files Daniel Drake
2004-02-25 22:49 ` Kay Sievers
2004-02-28 0:22 ` Greg KH [this message]
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