Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Sep 2015 10:52:47 -0700 | Subject | Re: stop breaking dosemu (Re: x86/kconfig/32: Rename CONFIG_VM86 and default it to 'n') | From | Kees Cook <> |
| |
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@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.
Linus will say the default must not break existing userspace...
-Kees
-- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security
| |