Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Sep 2015 16:25:51 -0400 | Subject | Re: stop breaking dosemu (Re: x86/kconfig/32: Rename CONFIG_VM86 and default it to 'n') | From | Josh Boyer <> |
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> 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. > > Linus will say the default must not break existing userspace...
Yeah, I guess. Which is weird when it's already N in his tree and we're talking about a config option that is explicitly there to disable things. Something will be broken if it's toggled, but oh well.
josh
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