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| author | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-10-02 08:45:08 -0400 |
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| committer | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-10-02 08:45:08 -0400 |
| commit | 59458f40e25915a355d8b1d701425fe9f4f9ea23 (patch) | |
| tree | f1c9a2934df686e36d75f759ab7313b6f0e0e5f9 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | 825f9075d74028d11d7f5932f04e1b5db3022b51 (diff) | |
| parent | d834c16516d1ebec4766fc58c059bf01311e6045 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into gfs2
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 54983246930..137e993f432 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that 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. @@ -1324,7 +1331,7 @@ running once the system is up. pt. [PARIDE] See Documentation/paride.txt. - quiet= [KNL] Disable log messages + quiet [KNL] Disable most log messages r128= [HW,DRM] |