linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] x86, efi: never relocate kernel below lowest acceptable address

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Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:25:23 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kairui Song <kasong@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Garrett <matthewgarrett@...gle.com>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86, efi: never relocate kernel below lowest
 acceptable address

On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 17:48 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 08:23:56AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > ?  examples please.
> 
> From this very thread:
> 
> \sEfi\s, \sefi\s, \seFI\s etc should be "EFI"
> 
> I'm thinking perhaps start conservatively and catch the most often
> misspelled ones in commit messages or comments. "CPU", "SMT", "MCE",
> "MCA", "PCI" etc come to mind.
> 
> > checkpatch has a db for misspellings, I supposed another for
> > acronyms could be added,
> 
> Doesn't have to be another one - established acronyms are part of the
> dictionary too.

Couldn't work.  The dictionary is case insensitive.