Re: obsolete modparam change busted.

[Rusty Russell]

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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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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