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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:49:08 +0300
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Elizabeth Figura <zfigura@...eweavers.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] NT synchronization primitive driver
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 09:01:53AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 07:31:12PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > drivers/misc/ntsync.c | 1146 ++++++++++++++
> >
> > Assuming this doesn't go into futex(2) or some other existing code...
> >
> > Can you start putting all of this into top-level "windows" directory?
> > I suspect there will be more Windows stuff in the future.
>
> There will? Like what?
I don't know, native PE loader is probably a must for running Excel natively.
> > So those who don't care about Windows can turn off just one config option
> > (CONFIG_WINDOWS) and be done with it.
>
> This should all be configured under one option anyway, so I don't see
> the need.
It is handy to have 1 obvious place to nuke some features completely.
Especially for polarising ones like Windows support.
> > Name it "Linux Subsystem for Windows" for 146% better memes.
>
> Fun with marketing! :)
If they can "Subsystem for Linux", we can too.
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