Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

[Alex Davis]

--- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Alex Davis wrote:
> >>Please don't tell me to "care for closed-source drivers". 
> > 
> > ndiswrapper is NOT closed source. And I'm not asking you to "care".
> > 
> > 
> >>I don't want the pain of debugging crashes on the machines which run unknown code
> >>in kernel space.
> > 
> > I'm not asking you to debug crashes. I'm simply requesting that the
> > kernel stack size situation remain as it is: with 8K as the default
> > and 4K configurable. 
> 
> I can be happy with 4K as the default, everything I use *except* 
> ndiswrapper seems to run fine (I don't currently need fancy filesystems) 
> but laptops seem to include a lot of unsupported hardware, which can't 
> be replaced due to resources (money, slots, batter life).
> -- 
I could live with any default, as long as it's configurable.
The intent here, however, is to take away the option. That's
what I have an issue with.

Is there any problem caused by letting stack size be
configurable to any (sane) arbitrary maximum value
(e.g. 32K)?


>     -bill davidsen (davidsen@xxxxxxx)
> "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
>   last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
> 


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