On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 12:47 -0500, Matthew Fredrickson wrote: > My question is this: is there a way to either work around the problem I > am seeing with the stack without recompiling the kernel with 8K stack > size or without disabling irqs for such a long period of time (which I > think is not a nice thing to do either) OR is it acceptable (although > not nice) to simply fix it this way, by disabling irqs while it loads > the firmware?
I wonder if you're chasing ghosts; 4K stack kernels have a seperate stack for interrupts so... those should be safe. Btw, you forgot to post a pointer to the source code of your driver, so it's a lot harder for us (read: impossible) to give you good advice.. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/