From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Tommi Virtanen <tv@tv.debian.net>,
Leann Ogasawara <ogasawara@osdl.org>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't allow / in class device names
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:45:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040213124555.00cbf3d7@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040213203448.GB14048@kroah.com>
> No, the "fix" is to just not do this in the driver. I'm not going to
> apply this patch, sorry.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Bah, kernel API's should check there arguments. One of my peeve's about sysfs is
that it is far too lazy about checking it's inputs. Especially, when the restrictions
are not well documented, the code needs to validate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-13 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-13 18:27 Stephen Hemminger
2004-02-13 19:21 ` [PATCH] propogate errors from misc_register to caller Stephen Hemminger
2004-02-13 20:38 ` Greg KH
2004-02-20 0:23 ` Greg KH
2004-02-13 20:34 ` [PATCH] don't allow / in class device names Greg KH
2004-02-13 20:45 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2004-02-13 20:59 ` Greg KH
2004-02-16 22:43 ` maximilian attems
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