Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:30:43 -0400 | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace |
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On 7/25/05, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/25/05, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 7/25/05, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> wrote: > > > On Sunday 24 July 2005 23:09, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > I just pulled from GIT to test bind/unbind. I couldn't get it to work; > > > > it isn't taking into account the CR on the end of the input value of > > > > the sysfs attribute. This patch will fix it but I'm sure there is a > > > > cleaner solution. > > > > > > > > > > "echo -n" should take care of this problem I think. > > > > That will work around it but I think we should fix it. Changing to > > strncmp() fixes most cases. > > > > - if (strcmp(name, dev->bus_id) == 0) > > + if (strncmp(name, dev->bus_id, strlen(dev->bus_id)) == 0) > > > > This will produce "interesting results" if you have both "blah-1" and > "blah-10" devices on the bus.
Then the better solution is to fix the generic attribute set code to strip leading and trailing white space.
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