From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:12:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480F7C11.8040302@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa79d98a0804222159l5ae49a64n101c4b299a3242ac@mail.gmail.com>
Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> actually, this CONFIG_VM86 was there even before the renaming was done.
> The main questions (imo) - is there any user space application who uses
> these flags? If they are - then even the idea of this patch was a bit bogus,
> and I should *not* remove all these VM86 specific flags but better define them
> as aliases on flags from processor-flags.h.
>
Hard to know. VM86 is only used by a handful of applications (DOSEMU,
X.org, others?) but it's hard to know what exactly they are.
The fact that noone hollered when that CONFIG_VM86 went in is probably a
good hint that they don't matter, but it's hard to say for sure.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-23 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200804181856.m3IIuKd4007403@hera.kernel.org>
2008-04-23 2:17 ` x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK David Woodhouse
2008-04-23 4:18 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-23 4:59 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-23 18:12 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-04-23 18:26 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-23 18:58 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-23 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-23 22:48 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-24 3:25 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-24 5:31 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-24 5:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 8:38 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-27 10:09 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-27 11:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-27 11:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-04-27 15:46 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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