The addresses are normal I2C addresses.  The adapter is the string
 name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-<n>/name.
-It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself.
+It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself.  Also, the comparison is done ignoring
+spaces, so if the name is "This is an I2C chip" you can say
+adapter_name=ThisisanI2cchip.  This is because it's hard to pass in
+spaces in kernel parameters.
 
 The debug flags are bit flags for each BMC found, they are:
 IPMI messages: 1, driver state: 2, timing: 4, I2C probe: 8
 
        .release        = single_release,
 };
 
+static int strcmp_nospace(char *s1, char *s2)
+{
+       while (*s1 && *s2) {
+               while (isspace(*s1))
+                       s1++;
+               while (isspace(*s2))
+                       s2++;
+               if (*s1 > *s2)
+                       return 1;
+               if (*s1 < *s2)
+                       return -1;
+               s1++;
+               s2++;
+       }
+       return 0;
+}
+
 static struct ssif_addr_info *ssif_info_find(unsigned short addr,
                                             char *adapter_name,
                                             bool match_null_name)
                                        /* One is NULL and one is not */
                                        continue;
                                }
-                               if (strcmp(info->adapter_name, adapter_name))
-                                       /* Names to not match */
+                               if (adapter_name &&
+                                   strcmp_nospace(info->adapter_name,
+                                                  adapter_name))
+                                       /* Names do not match */
                                        continue;
                        }
                        found = info;
        } else {
  no_support:
                /* Assume no multi-part or PEC support */
-               pr_info(PFX "Error fetching SSIF: %d %d %2.2x, your system probably doesn't support this command so  using defaults\n",
+               pr_info(PFX "Error fetching SSIF: %d %d %2.2x, your system probably doesn't support this command so using defaults\n",
                       rv, len, resp[2]);
 
                ssif_info->max_xmit_msg_size = 32;