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From: Frank Seidel <fseidel@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][trivial] crypto: tcrypt - reduce stack size
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:36:33 +0100
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Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Probably people should be reminded tcrypt can only be a module, not built-in,
> so it won't waste precious unswappable kernel memory if it's static.

Thats right, but it also doesn't hurt to simply use kmalloc, does it? :-)
I just stumbled over tcrypt on the make checkstack output and as also
the kerneljanitors todo advises to reduce this footprint where possible
i just wanted to help out here.

Thanks,
Frank