linux-kernel - Re: + mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-ID: <20140204012816.22878.4159@capellas-linux>
Date:	Mon, 03 Feb 2014 17:28:16 -0800
From:	Sebastian Capella <sebastian.capella@...aro.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	mm-commits@...r.kernel.org, "Joe Perches" <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: + mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch added to -mm tree

Quoting David Rientjes (2014-02-03 17:05:04)
> The last we heard, I think Sebastian is looking to redo this series and 
> this patch is no longer needed.  Sebastian?
Hi David, Alexey,

I am in the process of reworking the patches.  I'm not sure if Andrew
was just interested in having the kstrimdup utility function available.

Isn't it too late to impose userspace trimming of newlines for sysfs?
It seems already fairly common and expected for the kernel to eat the
trailing whitespace, or at least ignore it.  If we change this won't we
be breaking userspace / tools / instructions / etc?

I'll try to post the new patches soon.

Thanks,

Sebastian

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