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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 <noedler@web.de>

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- --- 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.

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

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