Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Remove compat vdso support

Linus Torvalds
2014-03-11T03:09:46Z

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>
> It does. My patch breaks OpenSuSE 9 when
> CONFIG_ENABLE_VDSO32_BY_DEFAULT=y unless it's overridden by sysctl or
> boot option.

Oh, I missed that "when =y" part.

But why do we then want to have that "=y" as an option at all?

If the situation is that everybody is fine with that being disabled by
default, let's just make it the default. And I'd even be ok with
removing it as an option *entirely*.

That would seem to be *much* preferable that having an option that
nobody really wants anyway, and where the default value would break
some users. THAT just seems completely insane.

Linus