Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:14:11 -0400 | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace |
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On 8/5/05, Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> wrote: > Am Freitag, 5. August 2005 15:32 schrieb Jon Smirl: > > On 1/1/02, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > Please, NO! echo -n is the right thing to do, and users will eventually learn. > > > We are not going to add such workarounds all over the kernel... > > > > It is not a work around. These are text attributes meant for human > > use. Humans have a hard time cleaning up things they can't see. And > > the failure mode for this is awful, your attribute won't set but > > everything on the screen looks fine. > > The average user has no place poking sysfs. Root should know when > to use -n, as should shell scripts.
So the average user never needs to change their console mode? Check out /sys/class/graphics/fb/modes and mode.
> > Regards > Oliver >
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