Re: stop breaking dosemu (Re: x86/kconfig/32: Rename CONFIG_VM86 and default it to 'n')

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Stas Sergeev <stsp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 02.09.2015 20:46, Josh Boyer ÐÐÑÐÑ:
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.  The default right now is N.  I asked it be left
that way.  That's all.

josh
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