Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261522AbTIXRjb (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:39:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261554AbTIXRja (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:39:30 -0400 Received: from meetpoint.leesburg-geeks.org ([66.63.28.250]:4358 "EHLO meetpoint.home") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261522AbTIXRjZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:39:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:39:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Ryan To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: log-buf-len dynamic Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1682 Lines: 38 Andrea Arcangeli wrote in message news:... > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:06:00PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > why do you want to force people to do something the way you think is best ? > > because it gives you no real disavantage to pass the parameter in grub. > You've to set root=/dev/root anyways, this way you would simply need to > add the parameter for log buf as well. I've always to add lots of other > stuff anyways, including vga= profile= etc.. > > > I personnaly think that both solutions are a convenient way of achieving the > > same goal for different people. Please let them choose. > > they can already choose with the parameter at boot, it's not that I > don't let them choose. I would like to add my two pennies... At home I have a box with 4 IDE controllers (8 channels). Up to and including 2.4.20 I needed a kernel parameter list specifying addresses, ata66, etc. for all but ide0 and ide1, as well as another couple tweaks. I literally was *at* the line length limit. While my specific situation was eased by .21 and .22 (all I need now is 'ide=reverse'), IMVHO as long as there is a hard limit on the parameter line length it would be very nice to have the option of minimizing what needs to be specified. (FWIW I use lilo; I've never tried grub. I haven't actually looked whether the line length limit is in lilo or the kernel.) Ken Ryan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/