linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V7 00/41] Intel(R) Resource Director Technology Cache Pseudo-Locking enabling

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Date:   Sun, 24 Jun 2018 00:14:54 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
        fenghua.yu@...el.com, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        vikas.shivappa@...ux.intel.com, gavin.hindman@...el.com,
        jithu.joseph@...el.com, dave.hansen@...el.com, mingo@...hat.com,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 00/41] Intel(R) Resource Director Technology Cache Pseudo-Locking enabling

Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:

>  - Stick the struct into the local header file and not at some random place in
>    the source.

Why?  It's only used in that one file.  There doesn't seem to be any
particular need to share it around.

>  - Get rid of the fugly camel case

It's not camel case.  It's the name of the option it's encoding.  But if it
makes you happy...

>  - Move the enablement into a separate function

Okay.

David