linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: firmware: Clarify firmware path usage

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Date:   Wed, 12 Apr 2023 08:08:02 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: firmware: Clarify firmware path usage

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 03:21:31PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 4/11/23 15:20, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> 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?

Sounds good.