Re: processor flags

[H. Peter Anvin]

Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> And now I'm in confusion - the way of changing this code I see is the
> following:
>
> - or use additional #ifdef CONFIG_VM86 in code where VM_MASK is used
>   (that would be ugly IMHO)
> - rename VM_MASK to say X86_EFLAGS_VM86 with that #ifdef remained
> - rest VM_MASK as it is
>
> How do you think?

I think what we should do is:

- Rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK (it's x86-specific after all)
- Have:

#if CONFIG_VM86
# define X86_VM_MASK X86_EFLAGS_VM
#else
# define X86_VM_MASK 0		/* No V86 support */
#endif

	-hpa
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