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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:33:25 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907071433.25406.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A52141A.8020709@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:41:22 am Peter Oberparleiter wrote:
> From: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Some boot mechanisms require that kernel parameters are stored in a
> separate file which is loaded to memory without further processing
> (e.g. the "Load from FTP" method on s390). When such a file contains
> newline characters, the kernel parameter preceding the newline might
> not be correctly parsed (due to the newline being stuck to the end of
> the actual parameter value) which can lead to boot failures.
>
> This patch improves kernel command line usability in such a situation
> by allowing generic whitespace characters as separators between kernel
> parameters.

Makes sense, applied.

Thanks!
Rusty.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-07  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-06 15:11 [PATCH] kernel: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator Peter Oberparleiter
2009-07-07  5:03 ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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