linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SYSFS: Fix return values for sysdev_store

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Message-Id: <20081016133530.1024528d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:35:30 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	greg@...ah.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SYSFS: Fix return values for sysdev_store_{ulong,int}

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:03:03 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:

> SYSFS: Fix return values for sysdev_store_{ulong,int}
> 
> Always return the full size instead of the consumed
> length of the string in sysdev_store_{ulong,int}
> 
> This avoids EINVAL errors in some echo versions.

That sounds fairly serious.  Is this a regression or are those versions
of echo really ancient, or...?
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