From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751304AbWG0VVV (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:21:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751313AbWG0VVV (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:21:21 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:20636 "EHLO fmmailgate02.web.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751304AbWG0VVU (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:21:20 -0400 Message-ID: <44C92E4E.1000104@web.de> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:21:18 +0200 From: "jens m. noedler" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060713) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Randy.Dunlap" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] update kernel-parameters.txt References: <44C8CDF7.4070205@web.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Randy.Dunlap wrote at 07/27/2006 06:44 PM: > Patch should apply with 'patch -p1' (i.e., filenames begin > with linux/ or a/, b/ etc.) Thanks for the feedback, here is an updated patch. By the way: Does anybody know _why_ COMMAND_LINE_SIZE depends on the architecture? Wouldn't it make sense to generalize it for all platforms to e.g. 2048 characters? Bye, Jens Signed-off-by: jens m. noedler - --- - --- linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.orig 2006-07-26 16:47:34.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2006-07-27 23:16:00.000000000 +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 is 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) iD8DBQFEyS5OBoFc9p8JILsRAnAwAKD/SlVUogI1weJaSqHmMgAkYvdCkwCfbb77 yDrZi2Zg0AWcxLW9mfh8ArU= =cMXH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----