Re: [PATCH] handle quoted module parameters

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Sun Nov 14 2004 - 20:25:35 EST


On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 20:16 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> Here's a patch with better description.
>
>
> Fix module parameter quote handling.
> Module parameter strings (with spaces) are quoted like so:
> "modprm=this test"
> and not like this:
> modprm="this test"

Well, the quote handling in insmod was ripped out after 3.0, exactly
because it was broken like this. But modprobe will use the latter form,
since it will paste it straight from the modprobe.conf file (which needs
quotes in options lines).

Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.
PS. module-init-tools 3.1 just out...
--
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