Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On 7/25/05, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/25/05, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
-- 
Dmitry
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