4KSTACKS again

[Brian Gerst]

Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 18:10, Andy Ross wrote:
> 
> 
>> But recent 2.6.5-x kernels have removed even that option, making it
>>  *impossible* for NVidia users to generate a working system from
>> the kernel-source package.
> 
> 
> Too bad. External binary modules never have, and never will hold back
>  development. NVIDIA need to issue driver updates that work
> accordingly.
> 
> 
>> Note that the official 2.6.5 kernel doesn't have the small stack 
>> feature at all, and works fine.
> 
> 
> 2.6.6 will have 4k stack patch merged.
> 
> 
>> The kernel SRPM adds a patch ("mc1") which includes the 4KSTACKS
>> features, and then another ("nostack") which inexplicably *removes*
>> the configurability of the feature, thus hard-wiring (!) the kernel
>> source to use 4K stacks.
>> 
>> So basically: Is this intentional?  Why?
> 
> 
> Yes. Supporting both makes zero sense other than to support binary 
> modules.  Nvidia made an assumption about kernel abi (not that there
> is one per se), that turned out to be no longer true.
> 
> 

Nobody is asking you to support the nvidia drivers out of the box.  What
I and others have issue with is the -nostack patch, which is unnecessary
and a gratuitous "screw you" to users who want to recompile the kernel
SRPM without hacking apart the patches.

It is now an *option* in the standard kernel, leave it as an *option* in
your kernels.

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				Brian Gerst