Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965152AbWL2UtS (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:49:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965157AbWL2UtS (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:49:18 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([217.147.92.249]:4032 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965152AbWL2UtR (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:49:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:49:04 +0000 From: Russell King To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ollie Wild , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, David Howells , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES Message-ID: <20061229204904.GI20596@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Ingo Molnar , Ollie Wild , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, David Howells , Peter Zijlstra References: <65dd6fd50610101705t3db93a72sc0847cd120aa05d3@mail.gmail.com> <1160572460.2006.79.camel@taijtu> <65dd6fd50610111448q7ff210e1nb5f14917c311c8d4@mail.gmail.com> <65dd6fd50610241048h24af39d9ob49c3816dfe1ca64@mail.gmail.com> <20061229200357.GA5940@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061229200357.GA5940@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 927 Lines: 23 On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:03:57PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > FYI, i have forward ported your MAX_ARG_PAGES limit removal patch to > 2.6.20-rc2 and have included it in the -rt kernel. It's working great - > i can now finally do a "ls -t patches/*.patch" in my patch repository - > something i havent been able to do for years ;-) How do the various autoconf stuff react to this? Eg, I notice the following in various configure scripts: checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768 Suggest you test (eg) a rebuild of libX11 to see how it reacts to this patch. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - 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/