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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:17:43 +0200
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Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 23:12 schrieb Jon Smirl:
> On 7/28/05, Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 21:57 schrieb Jon Smirl:
> > > New, simplified version of the sysfs whitespace strip patch...
> > 
> > Could you tell me why you don't just fail the operation if malformed
> > input is supplied?
> 
> Leading/trailing white space should be allowed. For example echo
> appends '\n' unless you know to use -n. It is easier to fix the kernel
> than to teach everyone to use -n.

Why? If you can do it in user space, do so.

	Regards
		Oliver