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Subject: Re: How many params can be accept by kernel module at most?
From: tingwei liu <tingw.liu@gmail.com>
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What's the meaning of dynamically and statically?
You response help me much. Thank you

2010/11/1 Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>:
> 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.
>