Re: Make MAX_INIT_ARGS 25

From: Pete Zaitcev
Date: Fri Aug 06 2004 - 15:17:36 EST


On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 18:12:36 +0200
Olaf Hering <olh@xxxxxxx> 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
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