Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750882AbVIDO3f (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 10:29:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750868AbVIDO3f (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 10:29:35 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:45802 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750821AbVIDO3e (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 10:29:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 16:29:07 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Andrew Morton Cc: rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Subject: Re: 2.6.13-mm1: PCMCIA problem Message-ID: <20050904142907.GC1827@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050901035542.1c621af6.akpm@osdl.org> <20050901142813.47b349ed.akpm@osdl.org> <200509021030.06874.rjw@sisk.pl> <200509021037.16536.rjw@sisk.pl> <20050902104319.GB9647@elf.ucw.cz> <20050902040926.6e02c4e8.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050902040926.6e02c4e8.akpm@osdl.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 933 Lines: 27 Hi! > > > One more piece of information. This is the one that loops: > > > > > > echo 30 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout > > > > Try echo -n ... > > Or revert gregkh-driver-sysfs-strip_leading_trailing_whitespace.patch. > Obviously if you write 30\n and the write returns 2 then the shell will > then try to write the \n. That returns zero and the shell tries again, ad > infinitum. Can you revert gregkh-driver-sysfs-strip_leading_trailing_whitespace.patch, instead? Kernel should not provide "nice" interface. Striping trailing whitespace is wrong, just teach users to use sysfs right. Pavel -- if you have sharp zaurus hardware you don't need... you know my address - 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/