linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, cpufeature: Fix duplicate feature name "dts"

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Message-ID: <20120621184403.GC15472@liondog.tnic>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:44:03 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, cpufeature: Fix duplicate feature name "dts"

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:06:04AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/21/2012 10:07 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > 
> > And FWIW, X86_FEATURE_DS has no user in the kernel. Doesn't look like a
> > key feature to me, but maybe my view is biased...
> > 
> 
> No, but apparently perfmon2 depends on it, in userspace, and it relies
> on the string.
> 
> So this is a nonstarter.

Maybe call the sensor thing "dtsen" or something similarly short but not
"dts"?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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