From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:22:06 +0000 Subject: Re: Excess spaces in sysfs files Message-Id: <20040228002206.GE13580@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <403D12BC.40209@reactivated.net> In-Reply-To: <403D12BC.40209@reactivated.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel