From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] boot parameters: quoting of environment variablesrevisited
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:35:45 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098257731.10571.138.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098256561.26603.4289.camel@d845pe>
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 17:16, Len Brown wrote:
> I verified that this new patch doesn't break the acpi_os_string="Brand
> X" kernel parameter.
I can't find where acpi_os_string is handled: grepping the latest kernel
gives nothing, but I'd expect the quotes to be stripped.
> I'm not sure what quoted parameters for init's environment are used for,
> but it looks like FOO="FOO BAR" now results in
> FOO=FOO BAR
> in the environment.
Yes, as did Werner's patch. I don't know if this is right, but it seems
sensible.
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-20 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-19 22:23 [PATCH] boot parameters: quoting of environment variables revisited Werner Almesberger
2004-10-20 1:04 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-20 1:47 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-10-20 6:21 ` Rusty Russell
2004-10-20 7:16 ` [PATCH] boot parameters: quoting of environment variablesrevisited Len Brown
2004-10-20 7:35 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-10-20 7:53 ` [PATCH] boot parameters: quoting of environmentvariablesrevisited Len Brown
2004-10-20 8:03 ` Rusty Russell
2004-10-22 1:01 ` Rusty Russell
2004-10-20 9:04 ` [PATCH] boot parameters: quoting of environment variablesrevisited Werner Almesberger
2004-10-20 9:27 ` [PATCH] boot parameters: quoting of environment variables revisited Werner Almesberger
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1098257731.10571.138.camel@localhost.localdomain \
--to=rusty@rustcorp.com.au \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=len.brown@intel.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=werner@almesberger.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox