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Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN

From Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN
Date 2015-07-10 20:00 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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
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Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-07-10 18:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-07-10 18:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-07-10 19:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-07-10 19:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-07-10 19:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-07-10 20:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] x86/kconfig/32: Mark CONFIG_VM86 as BROKEN Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-07-11 11:20 +0200

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