Re: [PATCH] Up silly limit on .config line length

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Wed, 6 Nov 2002 13:34:38 +0000


On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:32:30PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Russell King wrote:
> > I believe that this arbitary limit should be eliminated by some method.
> > However, as a "get you working" patch with a new arbitary limit of 1024
> > characters:
>
> I was already wondering, how much I should allow. :)
> But I'd rather set an arbitrary limit (and warn) than allowing an
> arbitrary long string.

That'd also work, but note that stderr/stdout messages are very easily
missed when using menuconfig.

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