Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932314AbWIDGOs (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 02:14:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751367AbWIDGOs (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 02:14:48 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:164 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751365AbWIDGOr (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 02:14:47 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] Dynamic kernel command-line Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:12:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Alon Bar-Lev , 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 References: <200609040050.13410.alon.barlev@gmail.com> <17659.26177.846522.226410@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <17659.26177.846522.226410@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609040812.43553.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 946 Lines: 26 > Under what circumstances do we actually need a command line of more > than 256 bytes? A common case is auto-installation of distributions. The auto installers tends to get a lot of information passed using the kernel command line. > 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. See it as the kernel's environment and it starts making more sense. In theory another environment could be added, but then the command like does the job already, except that it is a bit short sometimes. -Andi -- 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/