Re: [patch] remove MAX_ARG_PAGES

From: Russell King
Date: Fri Dec 29 2006 - 15:49:44 EST


On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:03:57PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> FYI, i have forward ported your MAX_ARG_PAGES limit removal patch to
> 2.6.20-rc2 and have included it in the -rt kernel. It's working great -
> i can now finally do a "ls -t patches/*.patch" in my patch repository -
> something i havent been able to do for years ;-)

How do the various autoconf stuff react to this? Eg, I notice the
following in various configure scripts:

checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768

Suggest you test (eg) a rebuild of libX11 to see how it reacts to
this patch.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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