On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 04:51:52PM -0400, Bharath Ramesh wrote: > I tried installing ndiswrapper on my laptop and found that my computer > freezes soon. It seems like the new version of ndiswrapper is quite > stack hungry like the windows driver. I want to know how do I increase > my stack size of my kernel when I am building my own kernel. In the > config file of the 2.6.7 kernel source I cant find the option for the > CONFIG_4KSTACK. Does this mean the debian kernel uses a 8K stack. If not > how do I build my kernel with atleast an 8K stack. I am not subscribed > to this list so would really appreciate if you could CC the reply to me.
Yes, Debian is using 8k stacks right on (on x86, that is - stack sizes on different architectures can be quite different). Note that we don't have irq stacks and you are still likely to get stack overflows with ndiswrapper.
