linux-kernel - Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM

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Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:31:17 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK

On Sunday, 27 of April 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Wed 2008-04-23 11:12:33, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > >
> > >Hi David,
> > >
> > >actually, this CONFIG_VM86 was there even before the 
> > >renaming was done.
> > >The main questions (imo) - is there any user space 
> > >application who uses
> > >these flags? If they are - then even the idea of this 
> > >patch was a bit bogus,
> > >and I should *not* remove all these VM86 specific flags 
> > >but better define them
> > >as aliases on flags from processor-flags.h.
> > >
> > 
> > Hard to know.  VM86 is only used by a handful of 
> > applications (DOSEMU, X.org, others?) but it's hard to 
> > know what exactly they are.
> 
> I believe vbetool and thus s2ram uses vm86, too.

Well, I think so too. Matthew?

Rafael
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