Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: stop breaking dosemu (Re: x86/kconfig/32: Rename CONFIG_VM86 and default it to 'n') | From | Raymond Jennings <> | Date | Fri, 4 Sep 2015 15:46:38 -0700 |
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On 09/04/15 14:30, Stas Sergeev wrote: > 05.09.2015 00:16, Stas Sergeev пишет: >> I agree. vm86() is a mess. >> My point is that its risky parts and useless funtionality >> is _already_ known (even I can point to the particular code >> parts than can simply be removed). As such, it simply had >> to be re-visited and cleaned up to match at least 1 and 3 >> (and then maybe 5). This wasn't done, and the knob was >> introduced _instead_ of doing this. > Grr, I mean it was disabled by default instead of doing this, > and the knob was only proposed, not added.
You can't just pull vm86 out of the kernel anyway. dosemu is a userspace application that depends on it, so pulling this feature out would be a big fat regression, period.
I would personally rather not hear about how "it's a legacy program so its userbase is shrinking" used as any sort of excuse to ignore the fact that we shouldn't break userspace.
I can even say as a user that vm86 is important to me.
By all means, cleaning up vm86 is a good idea. But removing it or fencing it off with a strong deprecation doesn't sound like the right idea. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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