Re: [Patch 0/2] dynamic debug

[Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:54:26PM +1100, Greg Banks wrote:
> > ok, patch below resolves the space issue.
> >   
> 
> The above patch makes the output much easier for a human to read, which
> is good.
> 
> However it's half the job.  The parser for the language used when
> writing to the control file still uses whitespace to tokenize and is
> still too dumb to handle quoting and so needs all whitespace escaped,
> like this
> 
> #echo -n 'format Setting\040node\040for\040non-present\040cpu +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control
> 
> Which is documented in the howto.  So that you could copy-n-paste in a
> terminal window, I chose to make the input and output formats as similar
> as possible, and used escaping for all whitespace on output.  That was
> just me being lazy, sorry.  Below is a patch which implements a better
> solution, which is to fix ddebug_tokenize() to handle simple quoting so
> the above would look like
> 
> #echo -n 'format "Setting node for non-present cpu" +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control
> 
> 

agreed. patch looks good...and I've tested it.

Greg KH, to be clear, Greg Banks patch applies on top of the additional
patch which I sent.

thanks,

-Jason