linux-kernel - [PATCH v9 6/8] Documentation/admin-guide: single quotes in kernel arguments

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Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2017 20:48:51 +0530
From:   Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Ankit Kumar <ankit@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@...e.de>,
        Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v9 6/8] Documentation/admin-guide: single quotes in kernel
 arguments

From: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
index 722d3f7..1f98372 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
@@ -35,9 +35,10 @@ can also be entered as::
 
 	log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
 
-Double-quotes and backslashes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.::
+Double-quotes single-quotes and backslashes can be used to protect spaces
+in values, e.g.::
 
-	param="spaces in here" param2=spaces\ in\ here
+	param="spaces in here" param2=spaces\ in\ here param3='@%# !\'
 
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