Re: [PATCH] boot parameters: quoting of environment variables revisited

[Werner Almesberger]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> If someone passes 'foo="some value"' the param engine removes the
> quotes and hands 'foo' and 'some value'.  The __setup() parameters
> expect a single string, and so we try to regenerate it from the two
> parts.

Ah, that's where the fix in 2.6.9 came from :-) Yes, better to
fix it properly for __setup, too. I didn't even pay attention
to the __setup case, but with that added, this really seems to
want to be done in the parser, perhaps along with "foo=b a r",
or such ...

- Werner

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