From: Frank Seidel <fseidel@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][trivial] crypto: tcrypt - reduce stack size
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:34:11 +0100
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Thiago Galesi wrote:
> If you write static char output[1024]; (even inside a function) it's
> not allocated on the stack.

Oh, yes i misunderstood Herbert, sorry. But anyway isn't
it preferred to kmalloc such arrays?
Greg, i thought it was you who told me so, is that right?

Thanks,
Frank