Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Feb 2017 09:06:16 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: configfs: make qw_sign attribute symmetric |
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On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 06:19:16PM -0800, Stefan Agner wrote: > Currently qw_sign requires UTF-8 character to set, but returns UTF-16 > when read. This isn't obvious when simply using cat since the null > characters are not visible, but hexdump unveils the true string: > > # echo MSFT100 > os_desc/qw_sign > # hexdump -C os_desc/qw_sign > 00000000 4d 00 53 00 46 00 54 00 31 00 30 00 30 00 |M.S.F.T.1.0.0.| > > Make qw_sign symmetric by returning an UTF-8 string too. Also follow > common convention and add a new line at the end.
Doesn't USB require that strings be in UTF-16? So why have the kernel convert them?
thanks,
greg k-h
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