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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 17:29:47 +0800
From: =?utf-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico?= Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: tingwei liu <tingw.liu@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How many params can be accept by kernel module at most?
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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.