Re: [PATCH] fs/devfs/base.c

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 05:09:09 EST


On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > - the kernel stack is 4kB, and _nobody_ has the right to eat up a
> > noticeable portion of it. It doesn't matter if you "know" your caller
>
> Umm Linus on what platform - its 8K or more on all that I can think of

Ehh.. It's _noticeably_ less than 8kB at least on i386.

> We have a very large number of violators of 1K of stack, and very few of 2K
> right now.

"Two wrongs do not make a right".

                Linus

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