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

[David Weinehall]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:16:05PM -0800, Alex Davis wrote:
> 
> 
> --- Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:20:54PM -0800, Alex Davis wrote:
> >  > The problem is that, with laptops, most of the time you DON'T
> >  > have a choice: HP and Dell primarily use a Broadcomm integrated
> >  > wireless card in ther products.  As of yet, there is no open
> >  > source driver for Broadcomm wireless.
> > 
> > We've already been through all this the previous times this came up.
> > 
> > http://bcm43xx.berlios.de
> > 
> > Whilst it's in early stages, it's making progress.
> > 
> > 		Dave
> > 
> > 
> I understand that, and am grateful for the effort, but the point is
> it's not ready. Are you expecting people to lose an important feature
> of their laptop until you get the driver ready? 

Yeah, it must be oh so important for the laptop owners with that
particular chipset to run the -mm experimental kernels instead of, their
distro kernel or the stable 2.6-kernel series or Linus latest
installment (or even a git-snapshot or checkout...)


Regards: David Weinehall
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