Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932069AbVIDRLk (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:11:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932071AbVIDRLk (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:11:40 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:19413 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932069AbVIDRLj (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:11:39 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 18:11:34 +0100 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" To: Stefan Smietanowski Cc: Alex Davis , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vda@ilport.com.ua Subject: Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS Message-ID: <20050904171134.GB9759@gallifrey> References: <20050904145129.53730.qmail@web50202.mail.yahoo.com> <431B2ACE.8030806@stesmi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <431B2ACE.8030806@stesmi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Chocolate: 70 percent or better cocoa solids preferably X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.11-1.14_FC3 (i686) X-Uptime: 18:09:07 up 2 days, 5:35, 35 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1311 Lines: 32 * Stefan Smietanowski (stesmi@stesmi.com) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alex Davis wrote: > >>Please don't tell me to "care for closed-source drivers". > > > > ndiswrapper is NOT closed source. And I'm not asking you to "care". > > While ndiswrapper might not be closed source, I would not call the > windows driver it loads open source ... Would it be possible for ndiswrapper to provide a seperate stack to the windows code so this problem is seperable? How debuggable is stack overrun? I mean if I am the unlucky admin who decides to setup a crypto/raid/stripe/thing setup which runs out of stack somewhere how easy will it be for someone who doesn't know the innards to know what happened as opposed to running into a random oops? Dave -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM,SPARC,PPC & HPPA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/