From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>,
Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86/cpu: proc - remove "wp" status line in cpuinfo
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:11:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170214171103.h7tela5qn2hatecd@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+rthh-PxoaPaUO80g8tqfUwZoKVCPjguCScioW5H_UqKGu_iw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 05:47:08PM +0100, Mathias Krause wrote:
> That's the reason I haven't folded this change into patch 2. I had
> similar doubts but it's not documented in Documentation/ and kinda
> useless to test anyway -- what would a "wp : no" tell one?
Not that - the missing wp-line in there might puzzle some idiotic
userspace script. And then it is our fault all over again that we broke
the world.
But I'm just playing the devil's advocate here. Realistically, it is
very likely that no one would care.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-14 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-12 21:12 [PATCH 0/6] struct cpuinfo_x86 related cleanups Mathias Krause
2017-02-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86: drop unneded members of struct cpuinfo_x86 Mathias Krause
2017-02-14 16:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-02-14 16:40 ` Mathias Krause
2017-02-14 17:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-02-14 18:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-02-14 18:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-03-11 13:34 ` [tip:x86/cpu] x86/cpu: Drop " tip-bot for Mathias Krause
2017-02-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86/cpu: drop wp_works_ok member " Mathias Krause
2017-03-11 13:34 ` [tip:x86/cpu] x86/cpu: Drop " tip-bot for Mathias Krause
2017-02-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86/cpu: proc - remove "wp" status line in cpuinfo Mathias Krause
2017-02-14 16:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-02-14 16:47 ` Mathias Krause
2017-02-14 17:11 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2017-02-14 18:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-02-14 18:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2017-02-14 21:42 ` Mathias Krause
2017-02-28 7:15 ` Mathias Krause
2017-02-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 4/6] sparc: remove unused wp_works_ok macro Mathias Krause
2017-02-13 2:48 ` David Miller
2017-02-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 5/6] cris: " Mathias Krause
2017-02-13 9:18 ` Jesper Nilsson
2017-02-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 6/6] m68k: paging_init - remove dead code Mathias Krause
2017-02-13 9:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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