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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


  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

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