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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:11:37 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>,
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] let 4KSTACKS depend on EXPERIMENTAL and XFS on 4KSTACKS=n
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On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:46:52PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > > > Mark this combination as BROKEN until XFS is fixed.
> > > 
> > > This part is not useful.  We want to hear about problems
> > > that people hit with 4K stacks so we can try to address
> > > them, and it mostly works as is.
> > 
> > 2.6 is a stable kernel series used in production environments.
> > 
> > Regarding Linus' tree, it's IMHO the best solution to work around it 
> > this way until all issues are sorted out.
> > 
> > Feel free to revert it in -mm later, since there are many brave souls  
> > running -mm you'll still get to hear about problems.
> 
> can you then also mark XFS broken in 2.4 entirely?
> 2.4 has a nett stack of also 4Kb... 

There are reports of breakages with 4kb stacks in 2.6, but AFAIK no 
similar reports for 2.4 .

cu
Adrian

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