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From: Benoit Boissinot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 06:11:57PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 8/21/05, Benoit Boissinot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 01:40:31PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > On 8/21/05, Benoit Boissinot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > Somewhere there is a mistake in the white space processing code of the > > > firmware driver. Before this patch we had inconsistent handling of > > > whitespace and sysfs attributes. This patch forces it to be consistent > > > and will shake out all of the places in the drivers where it is > > > handled wrong. Sysfs attributes are now stripped of leading and > > > trailing white space before being handed to the device driver. > > > > ok, i found it. If i do echo 1, it will read '1\n', will > > remove the '\n' and send '1' to ops->store. > > Then it will re-read '\n' and send '' to ops->store. > > And it will loop... > > Look at the length being passed in, isn't it set to zero for the second case? > yes, it is set to zero, but the '\n' will be stripped and stay in the buffer. Since flush_write_buffer returns 0, ppos will not be incremented and we have an endless loop. -- powered by bash/screen/(urxvt/fvwm|linux-console)/gentoo/gnu/linux OS ----- End forwarded message ----- -- powered by bash/screen/(urxvt/fvwm|linux-console)/gentoo/gnu/linux OS - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
