Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: configfs: use hexadecimal values and new line

[Stefan Agner]

On 2017-02-01 01:02, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 06:19:17PM -0800, Stefan Agner wrote:
>>> Other unsigned properties return hexadecimal values, follow this
>>> convention when printing b_vendor_code too. Also add newlines to
>>> the OS Descriptor support related properties, like other sysfs
>>> files use.
>>
>> configfs is not sysfs, so watch out, you might not need/want those new
>> lines as tools read the values and are not expecting them.
>>
>> Have you verified that nothing will break with this?  How have you
>> tested it?

I am actually writing OS Descriptor support for libusbgx (fork of
libusbg) when I stumbled upon this. The helper function there do not
care about the new line, but I just thought we should fix it for the
sake of coherency to the other properties. I am also fine dropping this
patch.

> 
> I would rather not change things like that, specially since Android guys
> are alreadying using configfs.

Do you happen to know where the source of that part is? So we could
check if they make use of any OS Descriptor support yet...

--
Stefan