Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:30:18 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add the ability to unbind drivers to devices from userspace |
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:28:10PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 7/25/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:30:43PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > On 7/25/05, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 7/25/05, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On 7/25/05, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> wrote: > > > > > > On Sunday 24 July 2005 23:09, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > > > > I just pulled from GIT to test bind/unbind. I couldn't get it to work; > > > > > > > it isn't taking into account the CR on the end of the input value of > > > > > > > the sysfs attribute. This patch will fix it but I'm sure there is a > > > > > > > cleaner solution. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "echo -n" should take care of this problem I think. > > > > > > > > > > That will work around it but I think we should fix it. Changing to > > > > > strncmp() fixes most cases. > > > > > > > > > > - if (strcmp(name, dev->bus_id) == 0) > > > > > + if (strncmp(name, dev->bus_id, strlen(dev->bus_id)) == 0) > > > > > > > > > > > > > This will produce "interesting results" if you have both "blah-1" and > > > > "blah-10" devices on the bus. > > > > Yes, not a good thing for USB devices specifically. > > > > > Then the better solution is to fix the generic attribute set code to > > > strip leading and trailing white space. > > > > No, that might break other things as we have not been doing this from > > day one. I'd rather just change these two places, if it's that big of a > > deal. It was documented (in a lwn.net article) and the changelog entry, > > that you should use "echo -n". > > I didn't realize that echo was adding the CR, I thought that it always > appeared on the end of a sysfs attribute set. So now I have to go add > white space stripping to a dozen fbdev/drm sysfs attribute > implementations. Given that the param is const I may have to allocate > new buffers and copy. I also wonder how many other people have made > the same mistake.
Nah, just zero out that \n character :)
> Are you sure it would break other things? These are supposed to be > text attributes, not binary ones.
I agree, I don't know what would break. Care to make a patch so we could find out?
thanks,
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