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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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> 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.