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From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk.linux-systeme.com>
To: Peter Hicks <peter.hicks@poggs.co.uk>, Arne Schwabe <plaisthos@web.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc3, nvidia.o and CONFIG_4KSTACKS
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 15:12:17 +0200
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On Sunday 02 May 2004 14:56, Peter Hicks wrote:

Hi Peter,

> Just a quickie - the NVidia driver kills my machine when running 2.6.6-rc3
> with CONFIG_4KSTACKS turned on.
>
> My fault for choosing the card.  Any chance of a warning in the help text
> for that option?

ack.

ciao, Marc

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# 2.6.4-WOLK2.1

--- old/arch/i386/Kconfig	2004-04-11 12:39:26.000000000 +0200
+++ new/arch/i386/Kconfig	2004-04-11 12:40:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -1504,6 +1504,8 @@ config 4KSTACKS
 	  on the VM subsystem for higher order allocations. This option
 	  will also use IRQ stacks to compensate for the reduced stackspace.
 
+	  Do NOT select this if you intend to use NVIDIA binary only modules!
+
 config SCHEDSTATS
 	bool "Collect scheduler statistics"
 	depends on PROC_FS

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