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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:03:58 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks
From: "Sean" <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
To: "Parag Warudkar" <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>
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On Tue, December 20, 2005 2:53 pm, Parag Warudkar said:

> Why take away the 8K option which already exists and works for people who
> need it? Let people choose what suits their needs. Forcing 4K stacks on
> people and asking them to sacrifice functionality while *gaining nothing*
> - sure sounds illogical. (You gain from 4K stacks - you have it as
> default, but technically you gain NOTHING from taking away the 8k option.)

Listen, for anyone who "needs" 8K stacks they can maintain the patch
themselves, they don't need it in the mainline kernel.   One of the points
of removing the 8K stack option is to singal to vendors and everyone else
that bugs arising from using 8K stacks and ** ANY ** sloppy code that
_needs_ 8K stacks is no longer appropriate for mainline.  The kernel
doesn't just carry around a bunch of crappy options because someone
somewhere thinks he needs it.

Sean