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From: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:43:39 -0500
To: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>
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On Dec 16, 2005, at 01:16, Alex Davis wrote:
> [flamewar]

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.
3)	All the in-kernel problems have been fixed, and this makes a lot  
of stuff less fragmentation-prone and more reliable.

Does anybody have any _in_kernel_ bugreports which are unaddressed,  
or maybe something out-of-kernel that is not handled by the above  
points?

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

--
There is no way to make Linux robust with unreliable memory  
subsystems, sorry.  It would be like trying to make a human more  
robust with an unreliable O2 supply. Memory just has to work.
   -- Andi Kleen


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