Re: [PATCH v1 5/6] x86/boot: Allow longer parameter list for earlyprintk

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu May 03 2018 - 07:48:23 EST


On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 16:51 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2018-01-16 at 04:11 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Allow longer parameter list for earlyprintk to support new
> > > > coming
> > > > parameters.
> > > >
> > > > No functional change intended.
> > > BTW., what happens if the parsed string is longer than this
> > > buffer?
> >
> > It will be cut up to 63 characters IIUC.
>
> Ok, that's fine!
>
> Could you please add a comment that explains the limit and the
> (benign) effects if
> we go past it?

Will do.

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy