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Peter Anvin" , Breno Leitao , Ingo Molnar , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, Sean Christopherson , Paolo Bonzini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, vlad.wing@gmail.com, security@kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com Subject: =?US-ASCII?Q?Re=3A_=5BPATCH_6=2E18=2Ey=5D_x86/cpufeatures=3A_M?= =?US-ASCII?Q?ake_X86=5FFEATURE_leaf_17_Linux-specific?= User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <87ik21sirc.ffs@fw13> References: <20261111-stabe_srso-v1-1-45512320ba5e@debian.org> <20261112045703.GAavVHH8KA2yyCU7oc@fat_crate.local> <9492bce8-aab7-4982-8a0c-7d736c745e12@zytor.com> <29B14106-19E4-4589-BE40-3D42BA646CE3@alien8.de> <87o6btsl4g.ffs@fw13> <20261112233327.GBavZMx2etyTFh1be4@fat_crate.local> <87ik21sirc.ffs@fw13> Message-ID: <804E3306-237D-4923-BF96-9E7C85BB933D@alien8.de> X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On November 13, 2026 12:00:07 AM UTC, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >Yes=2E The fact that it's ridiculous that we still have to debate this=2E I don't think anyone disagrees=2E >The time wasted on that, the time wasted by people to decode the subtle >bugs and the amount of AI tokens wasted to come up with more duct tape >fixes is at least an order of magnitude more expensive than funding the >completion of the overhaul=2E There's a great proverb in my native tongue which goes something like this= : whack the saddle so that the horse hears and acts on it=2E Yeah, I'm just a saddle=2E :-) >But I just "work" here so I might be missing something important which >justifies that =2E=2E=2E Same here=2E Lemme continue working towards it and we'll see where we get= =2E I'll whack scattered=2Ec and then continue working on Ahmed's pile=2E U= nless you have a different suggestion=2E=20 Thx=2E --=20 Small device=2E Typos and formatting crap