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 		on high Ethernet traffic.
 		Defaults to 4 if not defined.
 
+- CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
+
+        Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
+        internally to store the environment settings. The default
+        setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
+        cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
+        lib/hashtable.c for details.
+
 The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
 of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
 following configurations: