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SubjectRe: usb-snd-audio breakage
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:54:31AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 9/26/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > After thinking about this for a while, and seeing all of the different
> > iterations that the sysfs-whitespace-cleanup patch went through, I do
> > not want to add this to sysfs. It is very easy to add this to a
> > subsystem, or even provide a generic function to do this if you want to
> > (I'd be glad to add that to the sysfs core) but it's not for the core of
> > sysfs to do for all files.
>
> I went through the iterations because I hadn't thought about the case
> where people were assigning multi-line CR terminated values to sysfs
> attributes and then using multiple reads to process the assignments
> one line at a time. I had thought that sysfs was only supposed to
> allow the assignment of single values.

Yes, that is "heavily encouraged" to be the case. But as you found
out...

thanks,

greg k-h
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