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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Elizabeth Figura" <zfigura@codeweavers.com>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	"André Almeida" <andrealmeid@igalia.com>,
	"Wolfram Sang" <wsa@kernel.org>,
	"Arkadiusz Hiler" <ahiler@codeweavers.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] NT synchronization primitive driver
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:49:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2f8ee20-2a2b-44bb-8db2-6d2c353d6a6c@p183> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2024021756-bakeshop-wolf-f975@gregkh>

On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 09:01:53AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 07:31:12PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > drivers/misc/ntsync.c                         | 1146 ++++++++++++++
> > 
> > Assuming this doesn't go into futex(2) or some other existing code...
> > 
> > Can you start putting all of this into top-level "windows" directory?
> > I suspect there will be more Windows stuff in the future.
> 
> There will?  Like what?

I don't know, native PE loader is probably a must for running Excel natively.

> > So those who don't care about Windows can turn off just one config option
> > (CONFIG_WINDOWS) and be done with it.
> 
> This should all be configured under one option anyway, so I don't see
> the need.

It is handy to have 1 obvious place to nuke some features completely.
Especially for polarising ones like Windows support.

> > Name it "Linux Subsystem for Windows" for 146% better memes.
> 
> Fun with marketing!  :)

If they can "Subsystem for Linux", we can too.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-21 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-16 16:31 [PATCH 00/31] NT synchronization primitive driver Alexey Dobriyan
2024-02-17  8:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-02-21 16:49   ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-02-14 23:36 Elizabeth Figura
2024-02-15  0:01 ` Elizabeth Figura
2024-02-15  7:24   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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