linux-kernel - Re: x86: 4kstacks default

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Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:21:10 -0400
From:	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>
To:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Romano Giannetti <romanol@...omillas.es>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86: 4kstacks default

On Wednesday 23 April 2008 01:03:11 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2008 20:20, Romano Giannetti wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 11:44 -0400, Daniel Hazelton wrote:
> > > Since the second-most-common reason for stack overages is
> > > ndiswrapper... Well, with there being so much more hardware now
> > > supported directly by the linux kernel...
> >
> > How would I like you being right... Atheros AR5008, AR5414 PHY, "not yet
> > here". It's almost one year now since I bought this laptop, and till now
> > it's the cable or ndiswrapper. But yes, it's going better. For my first
> > wifi laptop I waited two and a half years, now it seems that in a bit
> > more than one there will be an open source driver...
> >
> > I know all the trouble ndiswrapper signify. But I see also that people
> > around me with a laptop and linux use more ndiswrapper than a real
> > driver, so... be gentle with it.
>
> Nobody knows how much potential development is not done because
> "you can make your wifi work with ndiswrapper".

I've got to agree with that sentiment. Once a working solution is found, no 
matter how crappy, it seems that almost all development stops.

DRH

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