The patch titled update Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is update-documentation-kernel-parameterstxt.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: update Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt From: "jens m. noedler" <noedler@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: jens m. noedler <noedler@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~update-documentation-kernel-parameterstxt Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~update-documentation-kernel-parameterstxt +++ a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ be entered as an environment variable, w it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs running once the system is up. +The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the +complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to +a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture +and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file +./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE. + + 53c7xx= [HW,SCSI] Amiga SCSI controllers See header of drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c. See also Documentation/scsi/ncr53c7xx.txt. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from noedler@xxxxxx are update-documentation-kernel-parameterstxt.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html