Re: + mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch added to -mm tree

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:45 AM,  <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> kstrimdup() creates a whitespace-trimmed duplicate of the passed in
> null-terminated string.  This is useful for strings coming from sysfs that
> often include trailing whitespace due to user input.

I think kernel should be strict in what it accepts, otherwise
case-insensivity and
what not will be added some day.

Shell will trim whitespace for you.
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