Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750851AbVLTSZV (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:25:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750850AbVLTSZV (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:25:21 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:10161 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750827AbVLTSZU (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:25:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:23:28 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: David Lang Cc: Horst von Brand , Parag Warudkar , Dumitru Ciobarcianu , Helge Hafting , Andi Kleen , Adrian Bunk , Kyle Moffett , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks Message-ID: <20051220182328.GD9251@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , David Lang , Horst von Brand , Parag Warudkar , Dumitru Ciobarcianu , Helge Hafting , Andi Kleen , Adrian Bunk , Kyle Moffett , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org References: <200512201428.jBKESAJ5004673@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 810 Lines: 19 On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:56:10AM -0800, David Lang wrote: > at least one of the 'popular distributions' that switched to 4k stacks > years ago worked around the problems that it generated by simply lableing > the portions that didn't work with 4k stacks as 'unsupported by this > distro' (XFS has been explicitly stated to be in this catagory in these > discussions) Actually there are several reasons why certain parts are unsupported in RHEL kernels. The fact that XFS blew up with 4k stacks was purely coincidental to it being unsupported. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/