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

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > 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.

Please, NO! echo -n is the right thing to do, and users will eventually learn.
We are not going to add such workarounds all over the kernel...
				Pavel
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