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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use enum instead of literals for trap values
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 11:15 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 03:21:58PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > For the Linux made up ones, a more descriptive name is better. Then
> > there wont be confusion when people look at "IR" and can't find it
> > online or in the document, and scratch their head thinking they are not
> > smart enough to do kernel development and we lose another kernel
> > developer ;-)
> 
> Like that ever happens... Kernel developers have thick heads, in most
> cases thicker than processor manuals.

I'm talking about new kernel developers, not the current ones ;-)

-- Steve