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

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri Jul 10 2015 - 14:00:58 EST


On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:39:02AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But things like strace and auditing etc has probably never worked in
> the first place.
>
> So yeah, I can well imagine that vm86 isn't universally useful. And
> maybe it's been effectively broken in halfway modern distributions due
> to their insane use of auditing - which is wonderful, because it's
> just a stronger argument for disabling it by default.

ITYM "both"...
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