Made a more granular configuration possible PREVENT_LENGTHY_EXTRUDE. You can now decide to allow/disallow large length of extrusions to be executed.

Turning off the protection might be beneficial to those who want to do fast and long reversals.

Marlin/Configuration.h

@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@
 //this prevents dangerous Extruder moves, i.e. if the temperature is under the limit
 //can be software-disabled for whatever purposes by
 #define PREVENT_DANGEROUS_EXTRUDE
+//if PREVENT_DANGEROUS_EXTRUDE is on, you can still disable (uncomment) very long bits of extrusion separately.
+#define PREVENT_LENGTHY_EXTRUDE
+
 #define EXTRUDE_MINTEMP 170
 #define EXTRUDE_MAXLENGTH (X_MAX_LENGTH+Y_MAX_LENGTH) //prevent extrusion of very large distances.
 

Marlin/planner.cpp

@@ -495,6 +495,7 @@ void plan_buffer_line(const float &x, const float &y, const float &z, const floa
       SERIAL_ECHO_START;
       SERIAL_ECHOLNPGM(MSG_ERR_COLD_EXTRUDE_STOP);
     }
+    #ifdef PREVENT_LENGTHY_EXTRUDE
     if(labs(target[E_AXIS]-position[E_AXIS])>axis_steps_per_unit[E_AXIS]*EXTRUDE_MAXLENGTH)
     {
       position[E_AXIS]=target[E_AXIS]; //behave as if the move really took place, but ignore E part
@@ -502,6 +503,7 @@ void plan_buffer_line(const float &x, const float &y, const float &z, const floa
       SERIAL_ECHOLNPGM(MSG_ERR_LONG_EXTRUDE_STOP);
     }
     #endif
+  #endif
   
   // Prepare to set up new block
   block_t *block = &block_buffer[block_buffer_head];