Android and compatibility with deprecated armv7 instructions

[Mark Brown]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 12:14:07PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> The timeline I propose would be:
> 
> 1. Architecture feature deprecation (still present, no way to disable)
>    - In Linux we need to find ways and push for alternatives to be
>      adopted by user space (like we did with kuser helpers)

Is it worth adding a non-default option to either disable and emulate or
just completely disable during this phase rather than at step 2 (perhaps
with a sysctl)?  That would help people who want to test that what they
are doing is going to work going forwards.  The work is going to have to
happen anyway.
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