Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:33:57 +0000 |
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On Llu, 2005-11-14 at 13:29 -0500, Giridhar Pemmasani wrote: > If this 4k stack patch makes into mainstream, I am wondering what options, > other than maintaining a patch to back this patch, are available. The last > time this issue came up some people suggested pushing ndiswrapper into user > space. However, AFAIK this is non-trivial; I looked into FUSD > http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/fusd/ which doesn't support > network drivers and seems to be not active in the recent past. > > Any suggestions on how ndiswrapper can live with this patch would be greatly > appreciated.
Switch stack before calling the Windows bits. If we take an IRQ then the kernel will itself switch to its own IRQ stack for the IRQ handling. I don't think there is much more required.
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