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

From: Giridhar Pemmasani (giri_at_lmc.cs.sunysb.edu)
Date: 11/14/05

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Date:	Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:29:54 -0500

    Alan Cox wrote:

    > reasons. The ndis wrapper people have known it is coming for a long
    > time, and if it has a lot of users I'm sure someone in that community
    > will take the time to make patches.

    I believe I mentioned it before. ndiswrapper itself has been 4k stacks ready
    for quite sometime. It is Windows drivers that need more than 4k stacks
    (although Windows uses 12k stacks, I don't know of any Windows driver
    requiring more than 8k stacks). One or two Windows drivers work with
    ndiswrapper and 4k stacks, Broadcom for example.

    If this 4k stack patch makes into mainstream, I am wondering what options,
    other than maintaining a patch to back this patch, are available. The last
    time this issue came up some people suggested pushing ndiswrapper into user
    space. However, AFAIK this is non-trivial; I looked into FUSD
    http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/fusd/ which doesn't support
    network drivers and seems to be not active in the recent past.

    Any suggestions on how ndiswrapper can live with this patch would be greatly
    appreciated.

    Giri

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