From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:33:25 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907071433.25406.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A52141A.8020709@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:41:22 am Peter Oberparleiter wrote:
> From: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Some boot mechanisms require that kernel parameters are stored in a
> separate file which is loaded to memory without further processing
> (e.g. the "Load from FTP" method on s390). When such a file contains
> newline characters, the kernel parameter preceding the newline might
> not be correctly parsed (due to the newline being stuck to the end of
> the actual parameter value) which can lead to boot failures.
>
> This patch improves kernel command line usability in such a situation
> by allowing generic whitespace characters as separators between kernel
> parameters.
Makes sense, applied.
Thanks!
Rusty.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-07 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-06 15:11 [PATCH] kernel: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator Peter Oberparleiter
2009-07-07 5:03 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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=200907071433.25406.rusty@rustcorp.com.au \
--to=rusty@rustcorp.com.au \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
/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