linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 01/11] add generic versions of debugfs file operations

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Date:	Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:46:07 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 01/11] add generic versions of debugfs file operations

On Saturday 23 February 2008, Al Viro wrote:

> Ewww - caps, \n...  BTW, \0 is pointless here - simple_read_from_buffer() will
> not access it with these arguments)...

> ... 

> Please, check the length; sloppy input grammar is a bad idea.  Hell, at the
> very least you want -EINVAL if input is not recognized...

Ok, these two come straight from debugfs, but of course I can fix them
anyway. Should I do a fix for debugfs in 2.6.25 first, or rather do a
patch on top of the libfs rework?

I'd rather not have any semantic changes during the conversion, so
it would be better to keep that separate imho.

	Arnd <><
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