[PATCH] boot parameters: quoting of environment variables revisited

[Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>]

When passing boot parameters, they can be quoted as follows:
param="value"

Unfortunately, when passing environment variables this way, the
quoting causes confusion: in 2.6.7 (etc.), only the variable name
was placed in the environment, which caused it to be ignored.
I've sent a patch that adjusted the name, but this patch was
dropped. Instead, apparently a different fix was attempted in
2.6.9, but this now yields param="value in the environment (note
the embeded double quote), which isn't much better.

I've attached a patch for 2.6.9 that fixes this. This time, I'm
shifting the value. Maybe you like it better this way :-)

- Werner

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Signed-off-by: Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net>

--- linux-2.6.9/init/main.c.orig	Tue Oct 19 19:07:45 2004
+++ linux-2.6.9/init/main.c	Tue Oct 19 19:11:05 2004
@@ -310,6 +310,13 @@
 	if (val) {
 		/* Environment option */
 		unsigned int i;
+
+		/* If the value was quoted, shift it. */
+		if (val[-1] == '"') {
+			memmove(val-1,val,strlen(val)+1);
+			val--;
+		}
+
 		for (i = 0; envp_init[i]; i++) {
 			if (i == MAX_INIT_ENVS) {
 				panic_later = "Too many boot env vars at `%s'";

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