From f36462f078403c1859a7e58177b28e01b3a179e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:45:34 -0700 Subject: [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 Cc: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/params.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c index fbf173215fd2..1a8614bac5d5 100644 --- a/kernel/params.c +++ b/kernel/params.c @@ -80,8 +80,6 @@ static char *next_arg(char *args, char **param, char **val) 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 @@ static char *next_arg(char *args, char **param, char **val) next = args + i + 1; } else next = args + i; + + /* Chew up trailing spaces. */ + while (*next == ' ') + next++; return next; } @@ -135,6 +137,10 @@ int parse_args(const char *name, DEBUGP("Parsing ARGS: %s\n", args); + /* Chew leading spaces */ + while (*args == ' ') + args++; + while (*args) { int ret; -- cgit v1.2.3