Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933023AbbGJR64 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:58:56 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f49.google.com ([209.85.215.49]:33881 "EHLO mail-la0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932612AbbGJR6u (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:58:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <23d4709cee2fe92c32d41b99c7a3c1823725925a.1436312944.git.luto@kernel.org> <559C8BFE.6050604@linux.intel.com> <87twtc14po.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:58:28 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Arjan van de Ven , Andy Lutomirski , "the arch/x86 maintainers" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Oleg Nesterov , Kees Cook , Peter Zijlstra , Borislav Petkov 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: 887 Lines: 20 On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So no marking it "BROKEN". No calling it names just because it doesn't > work in insane situations that nobody cares about. It's a legacy > thing, and it probably has very few users, but I'm getting the vibe > that you want to remove it or hate it just because it might not work > in situations that simply don't make sense in the first place, and > that it was never used for anyway. Oh, right, I didn't realize this was still the v1 thread. v3 no longer calls it BROKEN. That being said, if vm86 actually has feelings, then I'm worried :) --Andy -- 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/