Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog)

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:38 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> 
> - Add some run-time argument to the loader to override the command
>   line length.  But I do not like this either because it allows
>   breaking the Linux boot protocol. 

What exactly happens if we give the kernel a longer cmdline than it
supports? Does it just truncate, or fail to boot?

Why not allow users to pass as much as they want, and just warn them if
it's >255?

-Hollis