Re: 4KSTACKS again

[Brian Gerst <bgerst didntduck org>]

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