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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: yiding_wang@agilent.com, doogie@debian.org, arjan@infradead.org,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] handle quoted module parameters
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:18:18 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1100477898.7381.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41968935.30701@osdl.org>

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 14:22 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> yiding_wang@agilent.com wrote:
> >>There is *no* difference between:
> >>foo="111 222 333"\ 444' 555'
> >>and
> >>foo='111 222 333 444 555'
> >>and
> >>foo="111 222 333 444 555'
> > 
> > 
> > But there is a difference between foo="111 222 333" and "foo=111 222 333". The new patch is changing from former to later.
> 
> Actually the patch allows (or _should allow_) either format for quote
> marks.  I didn't remove the older code, just added support for the
> case of quote marks as "foo=this is a test".

Yes, I have no fundamental problem with the patch, but it'd need
thorough testing (eg. with __setup) since this area has broken before.

> Why is the module param length limit of 1024 a problem?

The 1024 test is there because we want to limit how much we output
through sysfs.  We could up it to PAGE_SIZE-1.

Rusty.
-- 
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-15  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-12 21:57 yiding_wang
     [not found] ` <41968935.30701@osdl.org>
2004-11-15  0:18   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-18 19:52 yiding_wang
2004-11-12 19:02 yiding_wang
2004-11-12 19:41 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-11 18:09 module tool with 2.6.9 limitation issue yiding_wang
2004-11-12  4:08 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-11-12  4:16   ` [PATCH] handle quoted module parameters Randy.Dunlap
2004-11-15  1:14     ` Rusty Russell

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