Re: Dropping support for old binaries

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:37:07PM +0300, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> > proposal on this list, but here's my response to that proposal:
> 
> I suggest that you don't misrepresent the original proposal.
> The original proposal was about dropping the support from GENERIC,
> that is not exposing rotten code to potential attackers.
> 
> Those who want to continue running old code can always either load a module
> or build custom kernel. This is actually good since this could somewhat
> improve the image of NetBSD in some information security circles.

that's not how I understood the initial proposal. The way I understood
it, the proposal was to remove the code, not only the option from kernel
configs.

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