From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750886AbVLPLGr (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:06:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751007AbVLPLGr (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:06:47 -0500 Received: from mail-in-08.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.48]:19124 "EHLO mail-in-08.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750875AbVLPLGq (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:06:46 -0500 From: Bodo Eggert Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks To: Kyle Moffett , Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Davis Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:05:18 +0100 References: <5kh6K-7KC-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <5kiFR-1mi-11@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kyle Moffett wrote: > Enough already! These concerns have been raised already, and found > to be insufficient. There are several points: > > 1) ndiswrapper is broken already, and works sheerly by luck anyways; > NT stacks are 12kb, so you're already asking for stack overflows by > using it. > 2) ndiswrapper encourages use of binary drivers instead of the open- > source ones that need the testers, so you're only hurting yourselves > in the long run. ACK. So where is the driver for the Netgear WG511 Softmac card I'm supposed to test? I bought this card because it was labled as being supported, and it turned out that it wasn't, and just nobody cared to update the list of supported cards with the warning about the unsupported variant. > 3) All the in-kernel problems have been fixed, and this makes a lot > of stuff less fragmentation-prone and more reliable. BTW: Is there any bug report related to 8K stacks? -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.