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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:12:34 -0400
From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace
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On 7/28/05, Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 21:57 schrieb Jon Smirl:
> > New, simplified version of the sysfs whitespace strip patch...
> 
> Could you tell me why you don't just fail the operation if malformed
> input is supplied?

Leading/trailing white space should be allowed. For example echo
appends '\n' unless you know to use -n. It is easier to fix the kernel
than to teach everyone to use -n.

> 
>         Regards
>                 Oliver
> 


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Jon Smirl
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