Re: [PATCH][2.5.60 Trivial] Sysfs not handling show errors

Patrick Mochel (mochel@osdl.org)
Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:33:07 -0600 (CST)


On 12 Feb 2003, Rusty Lynch wrote:

> Attempting to cat a sysfs file that returns an error will result in an
> endless dump of garbage to the screen because the result of the specific
> show operation was being saved to a size_t (unsigned) and then later
> checked for a negative value.
>
> Here is a trivial patch to fix the error.

Thanks, applied.

-pat

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