From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932281AbbIBUZx (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2015 16:25:53 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f171.google.com ([209.85.213.171]:38416 "EHLO mail-ig0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754474AbbIBUZv (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2015 16:25:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <55E6C36F.6080309@list.ru> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 16:25:51 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Mhvx_YAmpkifwHTJ9gVc1_I7824 Message-ID: Subject: Re: stop breaking dosemu (Re: x86/kconfig/32: Rename CONFIG_VM86 and default it to 'n') From: Josh Boyer To: Kees Cook Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Stas Sergeev , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)" , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Brian Gerst Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >>> I'd be amenable to switching the default back to y and perhaps adding >>> a sysctl to make the distros more comfortable. Ingo, Kees, Brian, >>> what do you think? >> >> Can you please leave the default as N, and have a sysctl option to >> enable it instead? While dosemu might still be in use, it isn't going >> to be the common case at all. So from a distro perspective, I think >> we'd probably rather have the default match the common case. > > Linus will say the default must not break existing userspace... Yeah, I guess. Which is weird when it's already N in his tree and we're talking about a config option that is explicitly there to disable things. Something will be broken if it's toggled, but oh well. josh