Re: Raising list size limit

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:12:08AM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:54:15AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > 
> > On Dec 18, 2007, at 6:01 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:36:27 +1100
> > > Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I am considering raising the limit on the size of postings to  
> > >> 400k.  Does
> > >> anyone have a real problem with this?  Limiting message size was  
> > >> done to
> > >> limit the damage of larges spams (and we don;t get very many of  
> > >> those on
> > >> the list) and to ease the pain for people downloading emails over a  
> > >> slow
> > >> (like dialup) link (and are there many of those left?).
> > >
> > > Fine by me!
> > 
> > Do you really have patches that are 400k?
> 
> I'm guessing stuff such as "dtc merge" could reach those sizes?

dtc merge was 224k, if it had stayed together with the libfdt merge it
would have been a about 300k.

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