Strip all trailing whitespace in cgroup_write_uint This removes the need for people to remember to pass the -n flag to echo when writing values to cgroup control files. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage --- kernel/cgroup.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: cpusets-2.6.25-rc2-mm1/kernel/cgroup.c =================================================================== --- cpusets-2.6.25-rc2-mm1.orig/kernel/cgroup.c +++ cpusets-2.6.25-rc2-mm1/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -1321,10 +1321,7 @@ static ssize_t cgroup_write_uint(struct return -EFAULT; buffer[nbytes] = 0; /* nul-terminate */ - - /* strip newline if necessary */ - if (nbytes && (buffer[nbytes-1] == '\n')) - buffer[nbytes-1] = 0; + strstrip(buffer); val = simple_strtoull(buffer, &end, 0); if (*end) return -EINVAL; -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/