Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] mm: add kstrimdup function

From: David Rientjes
Date: Fri Jan 31 2014 - 05:46:18 EST


On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > kstrimdup will duplicate and trim spaces from the passed in
> > null terminated string. This is useful for strings coming from
> > sysfs that often include trailing whitespace due to user input.
>
> Is it good idea? I mean "\n\n/foo bar baz" is valid filename in
> unix. This is kernel interface, it is not meant to be too user
> friendly...

v6 of this patchset carries your ack of the patch that uses this for
/sys/debug/resume, so are you disagreeing we need this support at all or
that it shouldn't be the generic sysfs write behavior? If the latter, I
agree, and the changelog could be improved to specify what writes we
actually care about.
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