linux-kernel - Re: stop breaking dosemu (Re: x86/kconfig/32: Rename CONFIG

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Message-ID: <55E7607B.4070800@list.ru>
Date:	Wed, 2 Sep 2015 23:47:55 +0300
From:	Stas Sergeev <stsp@...t.ru>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems)" <ajb@...eresystems.co.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Subject: Re: stop breaking dosemu (Re: x86/kconfig/32: Rename CONFIG_VM86 and
 default it to 'n')

02.09.2015 23:22, Josh Boyer пишет:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Stas Sergeev <stsp@...t.ru> wrote:
>> 02.09.2015 20:46, Josh Boyer пишет:
>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>>>> I'd be amenable to switching the default back to y and perhaps adding
>>>> a sysctl to make the distros more comfortable.  Ingo, Kees, Brian,
>>>> what do you think?
>>> Can you please leave the default as N, and have a sysctl option to
>>> enable it instead?  While dosemu might still be in use, it isn't going
>>> to be the common case at all.  So from a distro perspective, I think
>>> we'd probably rather have the default match the common case.
>> The fact that fedora doesn't package dosemu, doesn't automatically
>> mean all other distros do not too. Since when kernel defaults should
>> match the ones of fedora?
> I didn't say that.
What you said was:
---

While dosemu might still be in use, it isn't going
to be the common case at all.  So from a distro perspective

---
... which is likely true only in fedora circe.

>    The default right now is N.
In a not yet released kernel, unless I am mistaken.
If fedora already provides that kernel, other distros likely not.

>    I asked it be left
> that way.  That's all.
Lets assume its not yet N, unless there was a kernel release already.
Its easy to get back if its not too late.
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