Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] mm: add kstrdup_trimnl function

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue,  4 Feb 2014 12:43:49 -0800 Sebastian Capella <sebastian.capella@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> kstrdup_trimnl creates a duplicate of the passed in
> null-terminated string.  If a trailing newline is found, it
> is removed before duplicating.  This is useful for strings
> coming from sysfs that often include trailing whitespace due to
> user input.

hm, why?  I doubt if any caller of this wants to retain leading and/or
trailing spaces and/or tabs.

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