From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030229AbVHZTmD (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:42:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030230AbVHZTmC (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:42:02 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:37760 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030229AbVHZTmA (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:42:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:57:52 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Jon Smirl Cc: Andrew Morton , lkml , Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix whitespace handling on sysfs attributes Message-ID: <20050823145752.GA846@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <9e473391050823064469eb78a2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9e473391050823064469eb78a2@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > The first version of this patch didn't allow for the request firmware > case which does multiple parsing passes on the parameter. This was > discussed in the thread '2.6.13-rc6-mm1' I still thing this is very wrong to do. sysfs should not try to outguess users. -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms