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Message-ID: <20171031183258.uqqhe6qdyivx3t6f@pd.tnic>
Date:   Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:32:58 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Cc:     "Kammela, Gayatri" <gayatri.kammela@...el.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "hpa@...ux.intel.com" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Kleen, Andi" <andi.kleen@...el.com>,
        "Shankar, Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        "Neri, Ricardo" <ricardo.neri@...el.com>,
        "Zhong, Yang" <yang.zhong@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2]  x86/cpufeatures: Enable new SSE/AVX/AVX512 cpu
 features

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 06:25:55PM +0000, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
> We may need to send a patch to fix a few legacy names that don't match
> exactly specs, e.g. AVX512VBMI as you mentioned.

Or we can make them all uniform and ignore the spec. It's not like they
would be harder to grep afterwards.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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