From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758818AbYD0KKk (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:10:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754082AbYD0KKa (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:10:30 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:4372 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754083AbYD0KK3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:10:29 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:09:02 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov , David Woodhouse , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK Message-ID: <20080427100901.GC3891@ucw.cz> References: <200804181856.m3IIuKd4007403@hera.kernel.org> <1208917076.9212.721.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <480F7C11.8040302@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <480F7C11.8040302@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed 2008-04-23 11:12:33, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. I believe vbetool and thus s2ram uses vm86, too. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html