Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Friday 02 September 2005 09:08, Alex Davis wrote:
> ndiswrapper and driverloader will not work reliably with 4k stacks.
> This is because of the Windoze drivers they use, to which, obviously,
> they do not have the source. Since quite a few laptops have built-in
> wireless cards by companies who will not release an open-source driver,
> or won't release specs, ndiswrapper and driverloader are the only way
> to get these cards to work. 
>   Please don't tell me to "get a linux-supported wireless card". I don't
> want the clutter of an external wireless adapter sticking out of my laptop,
> nor do I want to spend money on a card when I have a free and working solution.

Please don't tell me to "care for closed-source drivers". I don't
want the pain of debugging crashes on the machines which run unknown code
in kernel space.

IOW, if you run closed source modules - it's _your_ problem, not ours.
--
vda
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