From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965538AbXCFSVp (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:21:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965539AbXCFSVp (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:21:45 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33151 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965538AbXCFSVn (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:21:43 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:21:34 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Andrew Morton , alon.barlev@gmail.com, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64, i386: Add command line length to boot protocol Message-ID: <20070306182134.GB9491@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , alon.barlev@gmail.com, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070306181430.GB3151@strauss.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070306181430.GB3151@strauss.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:14:30PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > +cmdline_size: .long COMMAND_LINE_SIZE-1 #length of the command line, Why a long? It's unlikely that someone is going to have a command line bigger than 0xffff. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk