From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
x86@kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/asm/msr: Retract msr-index.h
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:56:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <556F4DE1.8070706@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150603182134.GR4403@pd.tnic>
On 06/03/2015 11:21 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 02:41:48PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> This header containing all MSRs and respective bit definitions got
>> exported to userspace in conjunction with the big uapi shuffle.
>>
>> But, it doesn't have anything to do in the uapi headers because
>> userspace can do its own MSR defines and exporting them from the
>> kernel blocks us from doing cleanups/renames in that header. Which is
>> ridiculous - it is not kernel's job to export such a header and keep
>> MSRs list and their names stable.
>
> Here's v2. Needed to *not* include it into uapi/asm/msr.h either.
I really like the patch, but the description is awful.
How about: "x86/uapi: <asm/msr.h> is not a UAPI"
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-03 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-03 12:41 Borislav Petkov
2015-06-03 18:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-03 18:56 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2015-06-03 20:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-03 21:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-06-04 6:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-04 7:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-06-04 12:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-07-16 0:39 ` Len Brown
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