[PATCH] Ignore trailing whitespace on kernel parameters correctly
Dave Jones says:
... if the modprobe.conf has trailing whitespace, modules fail to load
with the following helpful message..
snd_intel8x0: Unknown parameter `'
Previous version truncated last argument.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index fbf1732..1a8614b 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -80,8 +80,6 @@
int in_quote = 0, quoted = 0;
char *next;
- /* Chew any extra spaces */
- while (*args == ' ') args++;
if (*args == '"') {
args++;
in_quote = 1;
@@ -121,6 +119,10 @@
next = args + i + 1;
} else
next = args + i;
+
+ /* Chew up trailing spaces. */
+ while (*next == ' ')
+ next++;
return next;
}
@@ -135,6 +137,10 @@
DEBUGP("Parsing ARGS: %s\n", args);
+ /* Chew leading spaces */
+ while (*args == ' ')
+ args++;
+
while (*args) {
int ret;