On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Stas Sergeev <s...@list.ru> wrote: > 02.09.2015 23:22, Josh Boyer пишет: >> >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Stas Sergeev <s...@list.ru> wrote: >>> >>> 02.09.2015 20:46, Josh Boyer пишет: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> >>>> 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. > > What you said was: > --- > > While dosemu might still be in use, it isn't going > to be the common case at all. So from a distro perspective > > --- > ... which is likely true only in fedora circe. > >> The default right now is N. > > In a not yet released kernel, unless I am mistaken. > If fedora already provides that kernel, other distros likely not. > >> I asked it be left >> that way. That's all. > > Lets assume its not yet N, unless there was a kernel release already. > Its easy to get back if its not too late.
How about CONFIG_SYSCTL_VM86_DEFAULT which defaults to Y? Fedora could set it to N. --Andy -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
