Bolke de Bruin wrote: >So the basic question is. Does this controller work on kernel 2.6.5? The problem is that the default stack size was reduced to 4kB. The local arrays allocated by the driver eat 2kB each, so a stack overflow is very likely. Even with 8kB stack it is still not impossible. Using the version from 2.6.5 will not be a very good idea I think, it's likely to crash your machine one day. The right solution would be fixing the driver to use kmalloc()/kfree() when he really needs the memory. There was a patch only a few days ago that tried to do that, but it was not really well done and would have crashed. If you are really interested in I can do such a patch. The code of this driver sucks universes through nanotubes, but one day someone _will_ have to start cleaning this up. Eike
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