Hi Evan,

> Hi Tim,
> 
> I understand the reasoning behind the length limitation for the BE name 
> but I'm not clear why the description is also limited to 64 characters. 
> What was the reasoning behind the description length limit?
> 

None other than having a sane limit so the text doesn't wrap in grub and in the 
boot menu (menu.lst for x86).

Thanks
Tim

> Thanks!
> -evan
> 
> Tim Knitter wrote:
>> Please review the following bug fix:
>>
>> 5749 libbe to provide public interface to validate BE name
>>
>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5749
>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~tsk/5749/
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tim
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