Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932703AbVLSJXS (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:23:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932704AbVLSJXS (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:23:18 -0500 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:52640 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932703AbVLSJXR (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:23:17 -0500 Message-ID: <43A67CEB.3040603@aitel.hist.no> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:27:07 +0100 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Puneet Vyas CC: Ismail Donmez , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks References: <20051211180536.GM23349@stusta.de> <200512160112.30179.ismail@uludag.org.tr> <43A239B4.8010309@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43A239B4.8010309@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1571 Lines: 36 Puneet Vyas wrote: > If the learned folks here think that "ndiswrapper" is some user space > program that people can live without than at least > 3 people in my house are doomed. We like to use linux but do not have > luxury that Ismail enjoys. At least windows > does not make such decisions on my behalf. Sigh. ndiswrapper can be fixed to work in a 4k stack environment, even if the windows driver in use needs more than 4k. This requires some work, because ndiswrapper will then have to manage its own stack instead of simply using the provided kernel stack. It is up to all people who want ndiswrapper to actually do this work. Note that this work ought to be done anyway, as windows drivers really assumes they can use 12k of stack, which they cannot do even with the current 8k stack. Another problem you may get with windows drivers, is licencing issues. If they want to, they can set the licencing terms so that you can't legally run the drivers on linux. Currently, it is only a question of money. Buy a windows licence, an you can use the windows driver on linux. It may or may not stay that way. Still, getting what you want on linux will always be only a matter of money, as there are wifi cards with _linux_ drivers out there. Just buy the right ones the next time you renew your pc. Helge Hafting - 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/