Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751565AbWEEPMS (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 11:12:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751588AbWEEPMS (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 11:12:18 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:56482 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751565AbWEEPMQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 May 2006 11:12:16 -0400 Message-ID: <445B62AC.90600@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 07:35:24 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060313) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alon Bar-Lev CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Barry K. Nathan" , Adrian Bunk , Riley@Williams.Name, tony.luck@intel.com, johninsd@san.rr.com Subject: Re: [PATCH][TAKE 4] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit References: <445B5524.2090001@gmail.com> <445B5C92.5070401@zytor.com> <445B610A.7020009@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <445B610A.7020009@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 729 Lines: 20 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > This should be a simple modification and I don't see why we > should fight on the LILO problem (if exists) when we have > the compile time config options alternative. > > People who uses LILO may leave the default 256 value. Other > may migrate to a higher one. > This is cargo-cult programming, sorry. Let's find out what the problem is and fix it right. If that involves fixing LILO and/or dealing with a LILO bug, we have ways we can do that. -hpa - 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/