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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86/cpu: proc - remove "wp" status line in cpuinfo
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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.

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