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authorjens m. noedler <noedler@web.de>2006-09-29 05:00:27 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-29 12:18:15 -0400
commit9c4751fd0eab5b8ebbfafb28cbcc8e03b0da5933 (patch)
tree164ae23293204aa4b93dc84299d1958781096f4e
parentb525a7e4445c4702dfc541930747517615c0c72a (diff)
[PATCH] update Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Signed-off-by: jens m. noedler <noedler@web.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that
110it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs 110it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs
111running once the system is up. 111running once the system is up.
112 112
113The number of kernel parameters is not limited, but the length of the
114complete command line (parameters including spaces etc.) is limited to
115a fixed number of characters. This limit depends on the architecture
116and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
117./include/asm/setup.h as COMMAND_LINE_SIZE.
118
119
113 53c7xx= [HW,SCSI] Amiga SCSI controllers 120 53c7xx= [HW,SCSI] Amiga SCSI controllers
114 See header of drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c. 121 See header of drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c.
115 See also Documentation/scsi/ncr53c7xx.txt. 122 See also Documentation/scsi/ncr53c7xx.txt.