Re: 2.6.13-mm1: PCMCIA problem

Pavel Machek
2005-09-04T14:29:35Z

Hi!

> > > One more piece of information. This is the one that loops:
> > >
> > > echo 30 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout
> >
> > Try echo -n ...
>
> Or revert gregkh-driver-sysfs-strip_leading_trailing_whitespace.patch.
> Obviously if you write 30\n and the write returns 2 then the shell will
> then try to write the \n. That returns zero and the shell tries again, ad
> infinitum.

Can you revert
gregkh-driver-sysfs-strip_leading_trailing_whitespace.patch, instead?

Kernel should not provide "nice" interface. Striping trailing
whitespace is wrong, just teach users to use sysfs right.

Pavel
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