Hi! > > > If we are going back to needing helper scripts then I should just > > > remove the entire sysfs graphics interface and switch back to using > > > ioctls and a helper app. Of could no one can ever find the helper app > > > or remember how it works. I thought one of the main reasons behind the > > > sysfs interface was to eliminate these helper apps. > > > > The point is that you _can_ do it with echo, not that it is _easy_. > > Nor is sysfs a solution in any case. > > > > > Without doing whitespace cleanup there is a 100% probability that this > > > will generate bug reports. I know this for a fact because I am already > > > getting them. > > > > Stupid users are not a reason for kernel bloat. > > You have a very wrapped sense of kernel bloat. This is nine lines of > code whose absence is guaranteed to generate a bunch of bug reports. > Not having it is also causing various implementers to implement > attribute processing differently. Some are stripping white space in > their implementations and some are not. If you want to attack kernel
Can you point place where we do strip whitespace in kernel sysfs handlers? Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms - 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/