From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932291AbbIBUn2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2015 16:43:28 -0400 Received: from smtp14.mail.ru ([94.100.181.95]:53979 "EHLO smtp14.mail.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754914AbbIBUn1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2015 16:43:27 -0400 Subject: Re: stop breaking dosemu (Re: x86/kconfig/32: Rename CONFIG_VM86 and default it to 'n') To: Josh Boyer References: <55E6C36F.6080309@list.ru> <55E736E9.2000201@list.ru> Cc: Andy Lutomirski , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)" , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Kees Cook , Brian Gerst From: Stas Sergeev Message-ID: <55E7607B.4070800@list.ru> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 23:47:55 +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; 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 02.09.2015 23:22, Josh Boyer пишет: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Stas Sergeev wrote: >> 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? > I didn't say that. What you said was: --- While dosemu might still be in use, it isn't going to be the common case at all. So from a distro perspective --- ... which is likely true only in fedora circe. > The default right now is N. In a not yet released kernel, unless I am mistaken. If fedora already provides that kernel, other distros likely not. > I asked it be left > that way. That's all. Lets assume its not yet N, unless there was a kernel release already. Its easy to get back if its not too late.