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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2005-09-27 21:45:34 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-28 07:46:41 -0700
commitf36462f078403c1859a7e58177b28e01b3a179e4 (patch)
tree48cc5b800e8fb6701a18135e015ebe57b4f1be60 /kernel/params.c
parente3306dd5f7eb2e699f36a4a313fca4b48b18d5e1 (diff)
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[PATCH] Ignore trailing whitespace on kernel parameters correctly
Dave Jones says: ... if the modprobe.conf has trailing whitespace, modules fail to load with the following helpful message.. snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `' Previous version truncated last argument. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/params.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/params.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index fbf1732..1a8614b 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -80,8 +80,6 @@ static char *next_arg(char *args, char **param, char **val)
int in_quote = 0, quoted = 0;
char *next;
- /* Chew any extra spaces */
- while (*args == ' ') args++;
if (*args == '"') {
args++;
in_quote = 1;
@@ -121,6 +119,10 @@ static char *next_arg(char *args, char **param, char **val)
next = args + i + 1;
} else
next = args + i;
+
+ /* Chew up trailing spaces. */
+ while (*next == ' ')
+ next++;
return next;
}
@@ -135,6 +137,10 @@ int parse_args(const char *name,
DEBUGP("Parsing ARGS: %s\n", args);
+ /* Chew leading spaces */
+ while (*args == ' ')
+ args++;
+
while (*args) {
int ret;
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