From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751367AbWG0OaT (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:30:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932402AbWG0OaS (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:30:18 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:13223 "EHLO fmmailgate02.web.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751367AbWG0OaQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:30:16 -0400 Message-ID: <44C8CDF7.4070205@web.de> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:30:15 +0200 From: "jens m. noedler" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060713) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] update kernel-parameters.txt X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - --- - --- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEyM33BoFc9p8JILsRAgTOAJ45DvSeR8cHMpfznKG8qe9TdDonkQCcDjd6 7GhmbrxbldwsG4f8DoxeXP4= =RqY3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----