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

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:11:21 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>, 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 06/21/2012 11:44 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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"?
> 

Yeah, that's what we have to do.  Sigh.

	-hpa

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