Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_stusta.de)
Date: 09/04/05

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    Date:	Sun, 4 Sep 2005 21:33:50 +0200
To: Bas Westerbaan <bas.westerbaan@gmail.com>

    On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 07:12:33PM +0200, Bas Westerbaan wrote:
    > > Yes you are. You're asking for 4KSTACKS config option to maintained
    > > and it is not something you get for free. Besides, if it is indeed
    > > ripped out of mainline kernel, you can always keep it a separate patch
    > > for ndiswrapper.
    >
    > Though 4K stacks are used a lot, they probably aren't used on all
    > configurations yet. Other situations may arise where 8K stacks may be
    > preferred. It is too early to kill 8K stacks imho.

    Please name situations where 8K stacks may be preferred that do not
    involve binary-only modules.

    > Bas Westerbaan

    cu
    Adrian 

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