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From: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:21:05 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sysfs: sysfs_attr_get_value() writes to a buffer
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Alan Jenkins wrote:
> This avoids lifetime issues with the returned string, for subsequent changes
> to caching in sysfs.  All callers are changed accordingly.  Many callers
> copied the result to a buffer already, so this actually simplifies some code.
>   

Sorry, my re-implementation of sysfs_attr_get_value() was defective.  It
didn't return cached values correctly.

I suggest you drop these two patches.  I'll fix the bug and update them
to apply on top of the recent libudev/logging changes.

Thanks
Alan