Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 May 2015 11:24:12 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Preserve iopl on fork and execve |
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On 05/12/2015 08:13 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: >> >> - Nothing actually broke that people cared about in the last 2.5 >> years, thus this might be one of the (very very rare) cases where >> preserving a breakage is the right thing to do. > > Indeed. The Linux "no regressions" rule is not about some theoretical > "the ABI changed". It's about actual observed regressions. > > So if we can improve the ABI without any user program or workflow > breaking, that's fine. >
But Linus, that would break dominix... ;)
-hpa
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