Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753607AbbGISax (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jul 2015 14:30:53 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-f179.google.com ([209.85.213.179]:35592 "EHLO mail-ig0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751818AbbGISap (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jul 2015 14:30:45 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <23d4709cee2fe92c32d41b99c7a3c1823725925a.1436312944.git.luto@kernel.org> <559C8BFE.6050604@linux.intel.com> <20150709090327.GA16677@amd> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:30:45 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7sXmQyO1XpdmeIYRUm4V5sSjOPQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN From: Linus Torvalds To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Pavel Machek , Thomas Gleixner , Kees Cook , Borislav Petkov , Arjan van de Ven , Oleg Nesterov , LKML , X86 ML , Peter Zijlstra Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 602 Lines: 15 On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > Perhaps we should instead move CONFIG_VM86 out of EXPERT, default it > to n, and suggest that everyone running a reasonably modern distro > (2006 and up?) turn it off. Ack. Changing the default and trying to deprecate it sounds like a good plan to me. Linus -- 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/