Re: PATCH: flags, paging guest kernel, various

[Drew Northup]

In the following quote Ramon made a very interesting
point--has anyone been assigning dates to their code
comments?  If not, how should this be done?  (I say
"if" solely because I don't know--I haven't been
coding anything as I do not have the knowledge that
some of the others here posses ;-) . ) 

Drew Northup, N1XIM

Ramon Von Handel (I hope I spelled that right!!)
wrote:
> Question:
> In kernel/monitor.c:set_guest_context() I found the
> following
> comment:
> 
>     /*
>      *  We don't allow to modify segment registers
> for now;
>      *  we don't want user mode to be able to crash
> the kernel ...
>      */
> 
> I don't see any reason for this.  Is this still
> applicable ?

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