linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mei: bus: Add newline to sysfs attribute outputs

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Message-ID: <2025103052-taking-shredding-c77a@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:32:21 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Zhongqiu Han <zhongqiu.han@....qualcomm.com>
Cc: alexander.usyskin@...el.com, arnd@...db.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mei: bus: Add newline to sysfs attribute outputs

On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 08:30:00PM +0800, Zhongqiu Han wrote:
> Append newline characters to sysfs_emit() outputs in func max_conn_show(),
> fixed_show(), and vtag_show(). This aligns with common kernel conventions
> and improves readability for userspace tools that expect
> newline-terminated values.

What userspace tool reads these values today?  Will this user/kernel api
break them?  How was this tested?

thanks,

greg k-h