FC6 Kernel Stack size ?

[tfindlay]

Hi,

I just wondered if there was any change to the 4K stack in the FC6 (2.6.18) kernel ?

This is my one major bug bear with FC4/5 as it requires I run a custom kernel, and patch in all my extra modules.

[lazlow]

tfindlay

I have no solid information, but I really doubt it. The vast majority of users get along with the 4k stack so there is little motivation to move in that direction.

Lazlow

[RahulSundaram]

Originally Posted by tfindlay

Hi,

I just wondered if there was any change to the 4K stack in the FC6 (2.6.18) kernel ?

This is my one major bug bear with FC4/5 as it requires I run a custom kernel, and patch in all my extra modules.

There is no plans to change this. Fedora used a 4k stack even before upstream kernel did and continues to do that now. If you have proprietary modules that require more than 4k stacks they should be fixed instead.

[tfindlay]

My problem with the 4k stack is the Win32 drives I need to run my Wifi card under Ndiswrapper.

I agree completely! Fix the WiFi support!

Of course, everyone knows thats bigger than ayers-rock and aint going to happen any time soon. in the mean time, I'll still need to custom-build my own kernel.

The cow then is every time a new kernel comes out, I need to download the source, merge in the Nvidia drivers, Ndiswrapper, NTFS support and everything. It's a bit of a cow. Hopefully I wont need to change kernel too often.

Thanks anyway folks.

[sej7278]

linuxant usually keeps pretty up-to-date with the fedora kernels and provides 16k stack rpm's:

http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader...ernel-i686.php

the ntfs project also has rpm's that work with the above 16k stack kernels:

http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/187/

so you only have 2 rpm's to install, everyone has to do the nvidia thing, and you could use the rpm's from livna.