Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756900AbZAMS43 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:56:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752577AbZAMS4M (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:56:12 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f29.google.com ([209.85.218.29]:42906 "EHLO mail-bw0-f29.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753854AbZAMS4K (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:56:10 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=p2CFy7zhCDDM4/2ffS1tkpGfqTR2TM0CkhKGyoPGczZFULlqOpYmr+pCsf3B5MD2k8 vf1+Q1A3kibCO92g2GtFJzcohIn4TOl2Rzk8fubaoOc5woVWLaEwekYDY9hzIi6WQdCa uicHPcPH5JYKs2cmuqGcMB7TNxqdMtLOndfKk= Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:56:08 +0300 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Harvey Harrison , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Sam Ravnborg , LKML , Jaswinder Singh Rajput Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: headers - fix export private data to userspace Message-ID: <20090113185608.GD14470@localhost> References: <20090113183456.GA14470@localhost> <1231871832.16221.1.camel@brick> <20090113185013.GB14470@localhost> <496CE36B.1030604@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <496CE36B.1030604@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1033 Lines: 33 [H. Peter Anvin - Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:54:35AM -0800] | Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | > | > I was concerning more about lilo side, is it use this param. | > So here is a link | > | > http://lists.linuxcoding.com/kernel/2006-q3/msg18665.html | > | > is seems LILO has it's own definition for COMMAND_LINE_SIZE. | > On the other hand it touches boot protocol. Peter should know | > if it safe to hide/change COMMAND_LINE_SIZE. Peter? | > | | Current x86 kernels export the command line size through the bzImage | header, and as such COMMAND_LINE_SIZE should not be used by userspace. | | I can't speak for other architectures. | | -hpa | | -- | H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center | I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. | Thanks Peter! - Cyrill - -- 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/