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Date:	Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:59:49 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
CC:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Userspace visible of 3 include/asm/ headers

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:51:38PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>
>>> On different architectures, we have the following values for 
>>> COMMAND_LINE_SIZE:
>>> - 256
>>> - 512
>>> - 896
>>> - 1024
>>> - 4096
>>>
>>> What should be the common value?
>>> 4096?
>>>
>>> And I have a rough memory of some dependencies of COMMAND_LINE_SIZE and 
>>> boot loaders. What exactly must be taken care of when increasing 
>>> COMMAND_LINE_SIZE?
>>>
>> It's architecture-dependent; it probably should be defined in something 
>> like <asm/cmdline.h>.
> 
> OK, I did misunderstand you.
> I tought you were saying it should be the same value for all 
> architectures.
> 
> With the exception of frv (in param.h), COMMAND_LINE_SIZE is in setup.h 
> on all architectures.
> 
> Do we want to move it to a different header, or simply make param.h a 
> userspace header on all architectures?
> 

I figure it should be broken out into a separate header, rather than 
exporting all of setup.h.

	-hpa
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