Re: obsolete modparam change busted.

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Mon Aug 08 2005 - 23:05:24 EST


On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 14:49 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> However this change was broken, and if the modprobe.conf
> has trailing whitespace, modules fail to load with the
> following helpful message..

Hi Dave,

This fix should be preferable, I think.

Name: Ignore trailing whitespace on kernel parameters correctly
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Dave Jones says:

... if the modprobe.conf has trailing whitespace, modules fail to load
with the following helpful message..

snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `'

--- linux-2.6.12/kernel/params.c 2005-07-15 04:39:53.000000000 +1000
+++ /tmp/foo.c 2005-08-09 13:56:04.000000000 +1000
@@ -1,0 +1,0 @@
@@ -135,11 +80,8 @@

DEBUGP("Parsing ARGS: %s\n", args);

- while (*args) {
- int ret;
-
- args = next_arg(args, &param, &val);
- ret = parse_one(param, val, params, num, unknown);
+ while (*(args = next_arg(args, &param, &val))) {
+ int ret = parse_one(param, val, params, num, unknown);
switch (ret) {
case -ENOENT:
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Unknown parameter `%s'\n",

--
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