On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 17:28:16 -0800 Sebastian Capella <sebastian.capella@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting David Rientjes (2014-02-03 17:05:04) > > The last we heard, I think Sebastian is looking to redo this series and > > this patch is no longer needed. Sebastian? > Hi David, Alexey, > > I am in the process of reworking the patches. I'm not sure if Andrew > was just interested in having the kstrimdup utility function available. > > Isn't it too late to impose userspace trimming of newlines for sysfs? > It seems already fairly common and expected for the kernel to eat the > trailing whitespace, or at least ignore it. If we change this won't we > be breaking userspace / tools / instructions / etc? > We have quite a lot of codesites which open-code the newline trimming. Providing a library function to do this will result in goodness. That being said, I don't plan to merge kstrimdup() until it has some users. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
