Re: [PATCH] Documentation: firmware: Clarify firmware path usage

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Tue Apr 11 2023 - 18:20:20 EST


Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Thanks,

jon