Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:21:18 +0200 | From | "jens m. noedler" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] update kernel-parameters.txt |
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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.
- -- jens m. noedler noedler@web.de pgp: 0x9f0920bb http://noedler.de
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