linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: mtrr_cleanup update command line

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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:07:58 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: mtrr_cleanup update command line

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:41:20 -0700 H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > 
> > E.g., the "apic" entries are not grouped together and these mtrr entries should
> > not be grouped together unless they all begin with "mtrr", which is an option here:
> > they could be renamed to "mtrr-cleanup" and "mtrr-nocleanup".
> > And "disable_mtrr_trim" could be renamed to "mtrr-notrim".
> > 
> 
> That does collide with the (not always kept) convention of prefixing 
> "no" to disable a boolean option, though.

True.  Then they just need to be listed in alpha order, please.

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~Randy
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