linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V7 1/5] x86/cpufeature: Add facility to check for min microcode revisions

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Date:   Tue, 5 Feb 2019 13:26:41 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     kan.liang@...ux.intel.com, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
        ak@...ux.intel.com, eranian@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 1/5] x86/cpufeature: Add facility to check for min
 microcode revisions

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:46:16PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So Boris asked me to remove the tail comments (done), but what about I
> do: % s/\<x86\>/&_family/g, on the rest of this too? I know we have
> cpuinfo_x86::x86 history, but at some point we should rename that too.

My argument was to keep them the same as cpuinfo_x86's members so that
there's no confusion.

But renaming the family member to x86_family makes sense to me. We
should do it some flag day.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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