Re: Possible bug in insmod or the kernel?

[Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>]

On 13:13 Mon 08 Feb     , Larry Homes wrote:
> No, the problem is not that the quotes are showing. The problem is
> that as soon as it sees a space, it assumes the following is the next
> parameters name. So for example:
> 
> [root@myhost modules]# insmod hello3.ko name="john smith"
> insmod: error inserting 'hello3.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
> 
> [root@myhost modules]# insmod hello3.ko "name=john smith"
> insmod: error inserting 'hello3.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
> 
> In both cases, dmesg shows:
> 
> hello3: Unknown parameter `smith'
> 
> I looked at the params.c code and it seems like the above should work.

I'm not familiar with the code in question, but I suspect that it
expects to actually see the quotation marks in the parameter value, but
your shell is eating them.  Try

  insmod hello3.ko 'name="john smith"'

instead.

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Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)