Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

[Ismail Donmez <ismail@uludag.org.tr>]

Cuma 16 Aralık 2005 00:04 tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> >On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:46 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >>Lee Revell wrote:
> >>>On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:07 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >>>>When you are on the phone with an irrate customer at 2:00 am in the
> >>>>morning, and just turning off your broken 4K stack fix
> >>>>and getting the customer running matters.
> >>>
> >>>Bugzilla link please.  Otherwise STFU.
> >>
> >>??????
> >>
> >>Jeff
> >
> >You imply that your customer's problem was due to a kernel bug triggered
> >by CONFIG_4KSTACKS.  I am asking you to provide a link to the bug report
> >or get lost.
> >
> >Lee
>
> You hack on this code base (hack is the right word) -- I sell it,
> service and support it with customers in a dozen countries.  I don't report
> company level issues in "bugzilla" or anywhere else public unless they
> apply to kernel code.  calls from several of our apps (which use
> larger than 4K kernel space on a stack) from user space crash -- so do
> wireless drivers -- and kdb crashes as well with some bugs with 4K stacks
> turned on when you are trying to debug something.
>
> Hope that addresses your concerns "joe job".

You are supposed to report those bugs in a manner it won't conflict with the 
privacy of your customer(s). Linux distros do this already.

/ismail
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