From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: processor flags
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:56:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080327195656.GB7633@cvg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47EBFBBE.4060404@zytor.com>
[H. Peter Anvin - Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:55:42PM -0700]
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>> And now I'm in confusion - the way of changing this code I see is the
>> following:
>> - or use additional #ifdef CONFIG_VM86 in code where VM_MASK is used
>> (that would be ugly IMHO)
>> - rename VM_MASK to say X86_EFLAGS_VM86 with that #ifdef remained
>> - rest VM_MASK as it is
>> How do you think?
>
> I think what we should do is:
>
> - Rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK (it's x86-specific after all)
> - Have:
>
> #if CONFIG_VM86
> # define X86_VM_MASK X86_EFLAGS_VM
> #else
> # define X86_VM_MASK 0 /* No V86 support */
> #endif
>
> -hpa
>
Thanks a lot, Peter
- Cyrill -
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-27 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-27 19:47 processor flags Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-03-27 19:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-27 19:56 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
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