linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: headers - fix export private data to userspace

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Message-Id: <1231871832.16221.1.camel@brick>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:37:12 -0800
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: headers - fix export private data to
 userspace

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 21:34 +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Impact: cleanup

> 4) setup.h - COMMAND_LINE_SIZE saved for userspace, bootloaders
>    could use it.

Doesn't this need to be (at least) _COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to avoid
polluting the namespace, not sure it can be changed though as the
horse is already out of the barn.

Harvey

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