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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 environmentvariablesrevisited
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:03:10 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098259389.10571.149.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098258821.26595.4324.camel@d845pe>

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 17:53, Len Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 03:35, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> s/acpi_os_string/acpi_os_name

Ah, looks like that code strips the " anyway, so the fact that we're now
doing it just means it can be simplified.

Cheers!
Rusty.
-- 
Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-20  8:24 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
2004-10-20  7:53       ` [PATCH] boot parameters: quoting of environmentvariablesrevisited Len Brown
2004-10-20  8:03         ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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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