Linus claims it does break. Roland McGrath <mcgrathr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Indan Zupancic <indan@xxxxxx> wrote: >> It's a lot easier for existing code to add an extra cs check than to >use > >The issue is whether showing fictitious high bits of %cs as set will >break >existing applications (debuggers, etc.) that look at it and think that >it's >nothing but the hardware state zero-extended, as it is today. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html