Re: Possible bug in insmod or the kernel?

[Larry Homes <larr.homes@gmail.com>]

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.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:14 PM, andrew hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com> wrote:
> have a look around kernel/params.c
> /* You can use " around spaces, but can't escape ". */
> /* Hyphens and underscores equivalent in parameter names. */
> static char *next_arg(char *args, char **param, char **val)
>
> Your printks are probably showing the single quotes? probably not what
> you want in your name
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Larry Homes <larr.homes@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am very new to kernel development and I was playing around with
>> making modules. I found I could not retrieve commandline parameters in
>> the module if the parameter has whitespace in it. I thought it was my
>> lack of knowledge that was causing the error (and I still do
>> honestly), but I made a forum post here
>> http://forum.kernelnewbies.org/read.php?17,1354 regarding the issue,
>> and someone suggested it may be a bug and I should post on LKML.
>>
>> The forum post shows example code to demonstrate the issue. I am using
>> archlinux and the latest kernel. I am not sure what other information
>> you need, so feel free to ask for anything.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
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