Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:15:23 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: Request: increase in PCI bus limit |
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Timur Tabi wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Christopher Neufeld <neufeld@linuxcare.com> on Tue, 30 > Jan 2001 16:08:32 -0800 > > > > Would it be possible to bump it up to 128, or even > > 256, in later 2.4.* kernel releases? That would allow this customer to > > work with an unpatched kernel, at the cost of an additional 3.5 kB of > > variables in the kernel. > > I don't think that's going to happen. If we did this for your obscure system, > then we'd have to do it for every obscure system, and before you know it, the > kernel is 200KB larger. > > Besides, why is your client afraid of patched kernels? It sounds like a very > odd request from someone with a linuxcare.com email address. I would think that > you'd WANT to provide patched kernels so that the customer can keep paying you > (until they learn how to use a text editor, at which point they can patch the > kernel themselves!!!)
Should there not at least be some bounds checking on this table, though?!
If it's only built at boot time, it's not performance critical. Maybe at a later date it could even expand (or shrink, on small PCs??) the table as needed?
James.
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