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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:32:44 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Up silly limit on .config line length
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On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:32:30PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> 
> I was already wondering, how much I should allow. :)
> But I'd rather set an arbitrary limit (and warn) than allowing an 
> arbitrary long string.
Since this has an unknown effect it should give an error, not just a
warning.
In the case raised by Russell an error would have been better, he would
never try to boot the kernel in that case.

	Sam