Re: problems with "options" in modules.conf

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting Oreste Salerno (osalerno@studenti.unina.it):
> 
> 2.2.15 code is the same as the 2.2.10, as what regards this part. Adding
> these extra printk showed me that the string ignore is composed only by the
> first word, even if actually there are more than one. i.e if i put:
> 
> options ignore='aa hdb hdc'
> it will just appear:
> ide-cd: will ignore aa
> 
> I tried to find where does ignore come from and I found that it's determined
> by a function called MODULE_PARM(), which does not belong to ide-cd.c so I
> think the problem does not belong to the ide-cd module. But I couldn't do
> anything more 'cause my programming knowhow is very limited. anyway, thanks
> again for your hints.

In which case, I would try the effect of
a) playing with the quotation marks, i.e. try " " instead of ' '
b) playing with the separator, i.e. try hdb,hdc hdb-hdc or even hdbhdc.
   strstr() only looks for the first occurrence of a substring,
   and has no concept of separators.

Cheers,

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