Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

Adrian Bunk
2005-09-04T19:33:52Z

On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 07:12:33PM +0200, Bas Westerbaan wrote:
> > Yes you are. You're asking for 4KSTACKS config option to maintained
> > and it is not something you get for free. Besides, if it is indeed
> > ripped out of mainline kernel, you can always keep it a separate patch
> > for ndiswrapper.
>
> Though 4K stacks are used a lot, they probably aren't used on all
> configurations yet. Other situations may arise where 8K stacks may be
> preferred. It is too early to kill 8K stacks imho.

Please name situations where 8K stacks may be preferred that do not
involve binary-only modules.

> Bas Westerbaan

cu
Adrian

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