Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932156AbWICXd2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Sep 2006 19:33:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932157AbWICXd2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Sep 2006 19:33:28 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:38785 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932156AbWICXd1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Sep 2006 19:33:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17659.26177.846522.226410@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 09:33:21 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Alon Bar-Lev Cc: Andi Kleen , Matt Domsch , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johninsd@san.rr.com, davej@codemonkey.org.uk, Riley@williams.name, trini@kernel.crashing.org, davem@davemloft.net, ecd@brainaid.de, jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz, anton@samba.org, wli@holomorphy.com, lethal@linux-sh.org, rc@rc0.org.uk, spyro@f2s.com, rth@twiddle.net, avr32@atmel.com, hskinnemoen@atmel.com, starvik@axis.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, matthew@wil.cx, grundler@parisc-linux.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp, chris@zankel.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] Dynamic kernel command-line In-Reply-To: <200609040050.13410.alon.barlev@gmail.com> References: <200609040050.13410.alon.barlev@gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 817 Lines: 24 Alon Bar-Lev writes: > Current implementation stores a static command-line > buffer allocated to COMMAND_LINE_SIZE size. Most > architectures stores two copies of this buffer, one > for future reference and one for parameter parsing. Under what circumstances do we actually need a command line of more than 256 bytes? It seems to me that if 256 bytes isn't enough, we should take a deep breath, step back, and think about whether there might be a better way to pass whatever information it is that's using up so much of the command line. Paul. -- VGER BF report: H 0 - 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/