Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Dec 2018 13:49:04 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/cache updates for 4.21 |
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* Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 12:26:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I've pulled this, but I think the new config option name is bad. > > > > I think it should probably have been called "X86_RESCTRL" instead of > > just "RESCTRL". That's way too generic a name for something that is > > (at least currently) very much an x86 feature. > > Right you are...
... and it's almost as if someone complained about this already:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/23/389
"Also, the Kconfig space, when it gets extended with the AMD bits, should probably follow the same nomenclature: CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESOURCE_CONTROL=yor such."
;-)
Anyway, I kind of dropped the ball after that first round of complaints, should have looked again.
Thanks,
Ingo
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