Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Apr 23 2008 - 14:16:44 EST


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.

The fact that noone hollered when that CONFIG_VM86 went in is probably a good hint that they don't matter, but it's hard to say for sure.

-hpa

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