Re: [2.6 patch] i386: always use 4k stacks

[Alan Cox]

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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