From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752331AbXCLXkH (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:40:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752347AbXCLXkH (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:40:07 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:58845 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752330AbXCLXkF (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:40:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:39:46 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Pavel Machek Cc: 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: <20070312233946.GE21835@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton , alon.barlev@gmail.com, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070306181430.GB3151@strauss.suse.de> <20070306182134.GB9491@redhat.com> <20070312104352.GA4313@ucw.cz> <20070312205513.GC21835@redhat.com> <20070312231220.GC9749@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070312231220.GC9749@elf.ucw.cz> 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 13, 2007 at 12:12:20AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > 65535 characters? Are you for real? > > Stop and think about just how big that is. If you have to create > > a boot command line that long, you have serious, serious issues. > > Well, it is about the same size as my .config... So? That has *nothing* to do with the boot command line > I agree we are unlikely to hit it any time soon... I could imagine > some (ab)uses, like fixed_acpi_bios=, but those > are ugly. That's beyond ugly, and rapidly heading towards 'loony'. > I could also imagine some uses where entire embedded machine > is described at kernel commandline. There are far better ways to get configuration into the kernel than the boot command line. Anyways, I'm tired of arguing for the sake of arguing. I really could care less. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk