From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755964AbbIBRur (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2015 13:50:47 -0400 Received: from smtp47.i.mail.ru ([94.100.177.107]:42572 "EHLO smtp47.i.mail.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755936AbbIBRup (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2015 13:50:45 -0400 Subject: Re: stop breaking dosemu (Re: x86/kconfig/32: Rename CONFIG_VM86 and default it to 'n') To: Josh Boyer , Andy Lutomirski References: <55E6C36F.6080309@list.ru> Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)" , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Kees Cook , Brian Gerst From: Stas Sergeev Message-ID: <55E736E9.2000201@list.ru> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 20:50:33 +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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mras: Ok Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 02.09.2015 20:46, Josh Boyer пишет: > 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. The fact that fedora doesn't package dosemu, doesn't automatically mean all other distros do not too. Since when kernel defaults should match the ones of fedora? vm86() is a mess, but it can be cleaned up so much that it just won't be a big deal at all.