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Message-ID: <4A57D024.8060700@impulze.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:35:00 +0200
From: Daniel Mierswa <impulze@...ulze.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC: rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Subject: [RFC][PATCH] Remove limitations with regards to kernel commandline
parsing
Currently there are limitations and imho some weird things with regards to parsing kernel command line parameters. Say if you an initramfs and you want to pass whitespace values to it you may end up with something you did not expect. Passing param="foo" to the kernel makes it (using [] notation) [param[foo]], so far so good. Passing real_root=LABEL="abc def" makes it [real_root[LABEL="abc def"]] which is not quite what you want, you'd expect [real_rooĊ§[LABEL=abc def]]. Hence my patch (git f-p against master of linus.git is attached) tries to remove those limitations.
> There was a limitation for kernel parameters with regards to quoting. It
> wasn't possible to escape quotes or use quotes to form space-filled
> values _inside_ parameters. This patch attempts to make that possible,
> kernel parameters are now parsed as follows:
> '"param= value"' [param= value][]
> 'param=" value "" combination "' [param][ value combination ]
> 'param=" \" test"' [param][ " test]
> '"param"=another' [param][another]
CC'ed rusty@...tcorp.com.au since he shows up quite frequent in git log of kernel/params.c
--
Mierswa, Daniel
If you still don't like it, that's ok: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.
--- Linus Torvalds, comp.os.linux.advocacy, 1996/07/22
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