Re: [PATCH 2/3] debugfs: move to new strtobool

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:33:22AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 04/19/11 21:30, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> > On 04/19/2011 11:43 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> >> No functional changes requires that we eat errors from strtobool.
> >> If people want to not do this, then it should be fixed at a later date.
> > 
> > May as well fix it now or it will get forgotten about. A second patch on
> > top of this can fix the bug.
> What worries me about this 'fix' is that it may well break some 'interesting'
> bit of userspace code.  It would count as a userspace api change, be it
> a fairly minor one.
> 
> Greg, do you thing it's worth returning an error on a non bool value?

No one has ever complained about it, so I doubt it's a big issue.

So I'd say to just leave it as-is for now.

thanks,

greg k-h
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