Re: How many params can be accept by kernel module at most?

From: AmÃrico Wang
Date: Mon Nov 01 2010 - 05:25:22 EST


On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 02:17:23PM +0800, tingwei liu wrote:
>How many params can be accept by kernel module at most?

If you mean dynamically, these parameters are passed as a whole to kernel,
from the source code, you can see the max length is ~0UL>>1.

If you mean statically, IOW, the max paramenters you can provide in your module,
this is limited by ELF section size.

Hope this helps.
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