On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:04:36AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
quoted text
> +	char buf[3];
> +	u32 *val = file->private_data;
> +
> +	if (*val)
> +		buf[0] = 'Y';
> +	else
> +		buf[0] = 'N';
> +	buf[1] = '\n';
> +	buf[2] = 0x00;
> +	return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buf, 2);

Ewww - caps, \n...  BTW, \0 is pointless here - simple_read_from_buffer() will
not access it with these arguments)...

quoted text
> +{
> +	char buf[32];
> +	int buf_size;
> +	u32 *val = file->private_data;
> +
> +	buf_size = min(count, (sizeof(buf)-1));
> +	if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buf, buf_size))
> +		return -EFAULT;
> +
> +	switch (buf[0]) {
> +	case 'y':
> +	case 'Y':
> +	case '1':
> +		*val = 1;
> +		break;
> +	case 'n':
> +	case 'N':
> +	case '0':
> +		*val = 0;
> +		break;

Please, check the length; sloppy input grammar is a bad idea.  Hell, at the
very least you want -EINVAL if input is not recognized...
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