linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v6 2/4] x86: Cleanup and add a new exception class

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Message-ID: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39F9FF79@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2016 17:00:04 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	"elliott@....com" <elliott@....com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v6 2/4] x86: Cleanup and add a new exception class

> So you're touching those again in patch 2. Why not add those defines to
> patch 1 directly and diminish the churn?

To preserve authorship. Andy did patch 1 (the clever part). Patch 2 is just syntactic
sugar on top of it.

-Tony