From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268271AbUHFUMl (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:12:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268264AbUHFULc (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:11:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:51853 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268271AbUHFUK4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:10:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 13:10:47 -0700 From: Pete Zaitcev To: Olaf Hering Cc: Paul Jackson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, spot@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, zaitcev@redhat.com Subject: Re: Make MAX_INIT_ARGS 25 Message-Id: <20040806131047.4a2c7b30@lembas.zaitcev.lan> In-Reply-To: <20040805161236.GD26568@suse.de> References: <20040804193243.36009baa@lembas.zaitcev.lan> <20040805143933.GA19219@suse.de> <20040805090843.5eaeed43.pj@sgi.com> <20040805161236.GD26568@suse.de> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 18:12:36 +0200 Olaf Hering wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, Paul Jackson wrote: > > > > Can the whole thing be dynamic? > > > > We're a little short of dynamic memory allocation mechanisms > > this early in the boot, I'm afraid. > > Ok, I'm fine with 32, we have such a patch since ages. I certainly don't mind 32, if SuSE software needs that. We shipped 25 for a while and everything worked on our side, so I wasn't aware. In actuality, Mike McLean's patch did establish 32, but then it looked like a knee-jerk power of 2 alignment, which we C hackers love irrationally :-) -- Pete