Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753338AbaBDBFL (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Feb 2014 20:05:11 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.220.53]:48699 "EHLO mail-pa0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752114AbaBDBFH (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Feb 2014 20:05:07 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 17:05:04 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Alexey Dobriyan cc: Linux Kernel , mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, Joe Perches , sebastian.capella@linaro.org Subject: Re: + mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch added to -mm tree In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <52ec195e.P8S/D298ZeaBLTvn%akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 3 Feb 2014, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > kstrimdup() creates a whitespace-trimmed duplicate of the passed in > > null-terminated string. This is useful for strings coming from sysfs that > > often include trailing whitespace due to user input. > > I think kernel should be strict in what it accepts, otherwise > case-insensivity and > what not will be added some day. > > Shell will trim whitespace for you. > The last we heard, I think Sebastian is looking to redo this series and this patch is no longer needed. Sebastian? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/