From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933900AbbIDVZW (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2015 17:25:22 -0400 Received: from smtp9.mail.ru ([94.100.181.97]:46804 "EHLO smtp9.mail.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932856AbbIDVZV (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2015 17:25:21 -0400 Subject: Re: stop breaking dosemu (Re: x86/kconfig/32: Rename CONFIG_VM86 and default it to 'n') To: Austin S Hemmelgarn References: <55E6C36F.6080309@list.ru> <55E736E9.2000201@list.ru> <55E7607B.4070800@list.ru> <55E7663B.30402@list.ru> <55E76FCB.7090304@list.ru> <55E838E6.8060205@gmail.com> <55E839C7.8010501@list.ru> <55E86AF7.3090200@gmail.com> <55E8767A.7000408@list.ru> <55E896C7.1010500@gmail.com> <55E8BB64.3020906@list.ru> <20150904060933.229b5b06@as> <55E9767B.2020501@list.ru> <55E98FD7.8020809@gmail.com> <55E99752.3090107@list.ru> <55E9F65F.7070300@gmail.com> <55EA0A45.7040102@list.ru> Cc: Chuck Ebbert , Andy Lutomirski , Josh Boyer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)" , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Kees Cook , Brian Gerst From: Stas Sergeev Message-ID: <55EA0D8C.1090803@list.ru> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 00:30:52 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55EA0A45.7040102@list.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mras: Ok Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 05.09.2015 00:16, Stas Sergeev пишет: > I agree. vm86() is a mess. > My point is that its risky parts and useless funtionality > is _already_ known (even I can point to the particular code > parts than can simply be removed). As such, it simply had > to be re-visited and cleaned up to match at least 1 and 3 > (and then maybe 5). This wasn't done, and the knob was > introduced _instead_ of doing this. Grr, I mean it was disabled by default instead of doing this, and the knob was only proposed, not added.