Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:13:31 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: usb-snd-audio breakage |
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:54:31AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 9/26/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > After thinking about this for a while, and seeing all of the different > > iterations that the sysfs-whitespace-cleanup patch went through, I do > > not want to add this to sysfs. It is very easy to add this to a > > subsystem, or even provide a generic function to do this if you want to > > (I'd be glad to add that to the sysfs core) but it's not for the core of > > sysfs to do for all files. > > I went through the iterations because I hadn't thought about the case > where people were assigning multi-line CR terminated values to sysfs > attributes and then using multiple reads to process the assignments > one line at a time. I had thought that sysfs was only supposed to > allow the assignment of single values.
Yes, that is "heavily encouraged" to be the case. But as you found out...
thanks,
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