Re: [2.6 patch] let 4KSTACKS depend on EXPERIMENTAL (fwd)

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:56:01AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2004-08-03 at 01:45, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > OTOH, at least XFS is known to have problems with 4kb stacks - and you 
> > don't want such problems to occur in production environments.
> 
> So put && !4KSTACKS in the XFS configuration ?

I originally did this additionally (including moving 4KSTACKS
above  XFS).

But independent of the XFS problem, 4kb stacks currently risk additional 
breakage without real benefits for most users.

That sounds like a perfect place for using EXPERIMENTAL to me.

cu
Adrian

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