Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 21:33:50 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Bas Westerbaan <bas.westerbaan@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Paul Misner <paul@misner.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS
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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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