* Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > I have it running linux 2.6.20 and busybox here: > > > > http://busybox.net/live_bbox/live_bbox.html > > > > (or rather, *you* will have it running linux 2.6.20 inside your browser, > > after you click on that link) > > Heh. I'm not sure that's a very useful thing, but if somebody can make a kvm > image or something with an old distribution that is known to work with FPU > emulation, maybe we should verify that the current code at least works. > > Because even if we decide that just deleting it is the right thing for > long-term > maintainability, it would be better if we delete it in a state where it is > known > to work about as well as it ever did. So that *if* we have to resurrect it, > we > know that it at least was working at the point where it was deleted. > > I hate deleting code because it got broken. In contrast, I don't mind > deleting > code that no longer makes sense to maintain. The two are supposed to be very > different things.
Absolutely agreed - it was my other motivator to try to fix math-emu in the FPU series. Another example is the low level assembly code which we are converting to C code, we (tried to) fix and deobfuscate and fix it before moving to C for similar reasons. Thanks, Ingo -- 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/