Re: [PATCH] Documentation: firmware: Clarify firmware path usage

[Florian Fainelli]

On 4/11/23 15:20, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 04:12:32PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > > I was not sure whether it was on purpose or not, Greg, will we break
> > > anyone's use case if we strip off \n from the firmware path passed via
> > > sysfs?
> >
> > I do not know, sorry.
>
> I would be amazed if anybody is putting newlines into their firmware
> path; that would be kind of a silly thing to do.
>
> That said, I've been amazed before.
>
> I'll go ahead and apply the docs patch, but it still doesn't really seem
> like the right fix to me.

I will submit a patch that strips off newlines from sysfs provided 
firmware paths and if this turns out to break someone's use case it 
could still be reverted, sounds good?
--
Florian