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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] conditional remove of trailing sysfs whitespace
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:03:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040304190336.GC21508@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040304124223.GA16249@vrfy.org>

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 01:42:23PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Hey, it may never happen, that one wants to distinguish attributes by
> trailing spaces, but we should not lose the control over it, just for
> being lazy :)
> 
> Here we remove the trailing spaces of the sysfs attribute only if the
> configured value to match doesn't have any trailing spaces by itself.
> So if you put a attribute in a rule with spaces at the end, the sysfs
> attribute _must_ match exactly.
> 
> Is that cool for everyone?
> 
> As usual, 2 tests are added for it with a artificial sysfs file and
> a few words to the man page.

Very nice solution.  This should make everyone happen, as it will "just
work" for whatever people want it to do, no config option needed.

thanks so much,

greg k-h


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-04 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-04 12:42 [PATCH] conditional remove of trailing sysfs whitespace Kay Sievers
2004-03-04 17:07 ` Richard Troth
2004-03-04 19:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-03-04 20:05 ` Raf D'Halleweyn
2004-03-04 20:11 ` Greg KH

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