Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:50:52 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] mm: add kstrdup_trimnl function |
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 12:43:49 -0800 Sebastian Capella <sebastian.capella@linaro.org> wrote:
> kstrdup_trimnl creates a duplicate of the passed in > null-terminated string. If a trailing newline is found, it > is removed before duplicating. This is useful for strings > coming from sysfs that often include trailing whitespace due to > user input.
hm, why? I doubt if any caller of this wants to retain leading and/or trailing spaces and/or tabs.
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