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SubjectRe: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK
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



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