From: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86/bugs: Remove MDS command line
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:41:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0a71676-f782-44ea-9c66-60658b9d9330@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa94df43-d2d7-478e-b74b-9afe6d624292@intel.com>
On 9/24/24 15:34, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 9/24/24 15:31, Daniel Sneddon wrote:
>> - mds= [X86,INTEL,EARLY]
>> - Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
>> - Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.
>
> As much as I'd love to remove old code, won't this surprise users if we
> just take this away?
>
> I suspect the _least_ we can do is warn folks if they use something that
> we recently ripped out. But the right thing is probably to keep the old
> one around for at least a while. <sigh>
True. I can leave the functionality but print a message basically saying "Don't
use this use the new one".
Thanks,
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-24 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-24 22:31 [PATCH 0/6] VERW based clean-up Daniel Sneddon
2024-09-24 22:31 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86/bugs: Create single parameter for VERW based mitigations Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-08 19:24 ` Kaplan, David
2024-10-09 16:17 ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-09 16:36 ` Kaplan, David
2024-10-09 16:39 ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-09 19:44 ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-09 20:02 ` Kaplan, David
2024-10-09 20:34 ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-10 4:52 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2024-10-10 14:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2024-10-14 15:42 ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-15 13:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2024-10-15 14:05 ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-09-24 22:31 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86/bugs: Remove MDS command line Daniel Sneddon
2024-09-24 22:34 ` Dave Hansen
2024-09-24 22:41 ` Daniel Sneddon [this message]
2024-09-24 22:31 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86/bugs: Remove TAA kernel parameter Daniel Sneddon
2024-09-24 22:31 ` [PATCH 4/6] x86/bugs: Remove MMIO " Daniel Sneddon
2024-09-24 22:31 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86/bugs: Remove RFDS " Daniel Sneddon
2024-09-24 22:31 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86/bugs: Clean-up verw mitigations Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-02 14:20 ` Nikolay Borisov
2024-10-02 14:46 ` Daniel Sneddon
2024-10-02 14:54 ` Nikolay Borisov
2024-10-07 19:37 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2024-10-08 16:17 ` Daniel Sneddon
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