Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

From: raven
Date: Wed Jun 08 2005 - 09:35:46 EST


On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Denis Vlasenko wrote:

> On Wednesday 08 June 2005 04:52, Ian Kent wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > > 4Kb kernel stacks are the future on i386, and it seems the problems it
> > > initially caused are now sorted out.
> > >
> > > I'd like to:
> > > - get a patch into the next -mm that unconditionally enables 4KSTACKS
> > > - if there won't be new reports of breakages, send a patch to
> > > completely remove !4KSTACKS for 2.6.13 or 2.6.14
> > >
> > > The only drawback is that REISER4_FS does still depend on !4KSTACKS.
> > > I told Hans back in March that this has to be changed.
> >
> > What about ndiswrapper?
> > Why is it so important to make this happen unconditionally?
>
> Number of folks using ndiswrapper for acx100/acx111
> while acx team needs help on native driver debugging
> worries me.

And there's no support for any wireless usb devices that I can see as yet.

Ian

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