On 2017.05.01 at 15:18 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Sat, 2017-04-29 at 07:38 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > Trying to switch to a non-existing elevator currently results in garbled > > dmesg output, e.g.: > > > > # echo "foo" > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler > > > > elevator: type foo not found > > elevator: switch to foo > > failed > > > > (note the unintended line break.) > > > > Fix by stripping the trailing newline. > > > > diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c > > index bf11e70f008b..4f13fcd3c626 100644 > > --- a/block/elevator.c > > +++ b/block/elevator.c > > @@ -1112,6 +1112,7 @@ static inline bool elv_support_iosched(struct request_queue *q) > > ssize_t elv_iosched_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *name, > > size_t count) > > { > > + char elevator_name[ELV_NAME_MAX]; > > int ret; > > > > if (!(q->mq_ops || q->request_fn) || !elv_support_iosched(q)) > > @@ -1121,7 +1122,9 @@ ssize_t elv_iosched_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *name, > > if (!ret) > > return count; > > > > - printk(KERN_ERR "elevator: switch to %s failed\n", name); > > + strlcpy(elevator_name, name, sizeof(elevator_name)); > > + strstrip(elevator_name); > > + printk(KERN_ERR "elevator: switch to %s failed\n", elevator_name); > > return ret; > > } > > Hello Markus, > > Your patch duplicates the code to remove trailing whitespace which is not > very elegant. Please move the code that removes trailing whitespace from > __elevator_change() into elv_iosched_store() instead of duplicating it. Yes, I thought about it, but the problem is that elevator_change() calls __elevator_change(), too. -- Markus