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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 17:46:41 +0900
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86@...nel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>,
richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@...labs.com>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, pageexec@...email.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 9/9] x86-64: Add CONFIG_UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS to feature-removal-schedule
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu> wrote:
> CONFIG_UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS was added in the previous patch as a
> temporary hack to avoid penalizing users who don't build glibc from
> git.
I really hate that name.
Do you have *any* reason to call this "unsafe"?
Seriously. The whole patch series just seems annoying.
Linus
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