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From: "jens m. noedler" <noedler@web.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] update kernel-parameters.txt
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:30:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C8CDF7.4070205@web.de> (raw)

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Hi,

This is just a little documentation update which applies to 2.6.18-rc2.

Kind regards, Jens Nödler



Signed-off-by: jens m. noedler <noedler@web.de>

- ---

- --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.orig    2006-07-26 16:47:34.000000000 +0200
+++ Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2006-07-27 15:57:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ be entered as an environment variable, w
 it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
 running once the system is up.

+The number of kernel parameters in not limited, but the length of the
+complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
+a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
+and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
+./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
+
+
        53c7xx=         [HW,SCSI] Amiga SCSI controllers
                        See header of drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c.
                        See also Documentation/scsi/ncr53c7xx.txt.


- -- 
jens m. noedler
  noedler@web.de
  pgp: 0x9f0920bb
  http://noedler.de

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             reply	other threads:[~2006-07-27 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-27 14:30 jens m. noedler [this message]
2006-07-27 16:44 ` [PATCH] update kernel-parameters.txt Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-27 21:21   ` jens m. noedler

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