core_param() for genuinely core kernel parameters

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / kernel / params.c

diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index f27c992a462513417215c1075fb6bfad8b8e58bf..b077f1b045d3c6e33447a8c9568c8c7f5ced1fa2 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -637,14 +637,14 @@ static void __init param_sysfs_builtin(void)
 
                dot = strchr(kp->name, '.');
                if (!dot) {
-                       DEBUGP("couldn't find period in first %d characters "
-                              "of %s\n", MODULE_NAME_LEN, kp->name);
-                       continue;
+                       /* This happens for core_param() */
+                       strcpy(modname, "kernel");
+                       name_len = 0;
+               } else {
+                       name_len = dot - kp->name + 1;
+                       strlcpy(modname, kp->name, name_len);
                }
-               name_len = dot - kp->name;
-               strncpy(modname, kp->name, name_len);
-               modname[name_len] = '\0';
-               kernel_add_sysfs_param(modname, kp, name_len+1);
+               kernel_add_sysfs_param(modname, kp, name_len);
        }
 }