linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] x86: put msr-index.h in uapi

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Message-ID: <20170123172627.32zcbntwo7nmd5rf@pd.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:26:27 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>, arnd@...db.de,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] x86: put msr-index.h in uapi

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 09:21:03AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Or keep the exported version as-is and never changed it, and use
> a different copy for the kernel itself.

Yeah, that's a good idea, thanks Christoph.

I guess we'll have to do that if something in userspace has put its
sticky fingers on that file and cannot be fixed. Which I hardly doubt
but we can't break that damn userspace.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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