[driverloader] More concisely

[Marc Boucher]

Hi Cristiano,

If I recall correctly you are using a SuSE kernel. These usually have 
8k of stack, which is sufficient (based on the testing that we have 
done) for the USR805410 (TI ACX 111) Windows driver, so you shouldn't 
worry about this. Intel Centrino drivers (2100 and 2200bg) are much 
larger stack consumers and more problematic, especially when combined 
with Fedora kernels compiled with small 4K stacks.

In order to eliminate or at least reduce the stack overflow risks we 
are working to increase the awareness of chipset manufacturers that 
their drivers can also be used under Linux, making Fedora kernels and 
patches for larger stack sizes available, and implementing special 
workarounds in driverloader itself that attenuate the problem.

Marc

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Marc Boucher
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On Jul 19, 2004, at 6:53 PM, Cristiano De Michele wrote:

> Hi Marc,
> I have usr805410 pcmcia card (tiacx111) and I'm using happily
> driverloader + latest robotics drivers (6.0).
> So far I had no stability issues and all works fine but
> I know that windows has a larger stack and I wonder if
> it's worth applying patch-16k_stacks_2.4 to my 2.4.26 kernel
> to get a larger stack.
> Do I prevent eventual stability problems this way? or usrobotics driver
> are written having in mind that they may be used under linux through
> driverloader?
>
> many thanks
> and keep up great work
> Cristiano
>
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