linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/CPU/AMD: Rename the spectral chicken

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Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2023 11:14:44 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/CPU/AMD: Rename the spectral chicken

On Tue, Apr 25 2023 at 23:15, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 10:59:44PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> This gets to be the spectral chicken forever more as punishment. Next
>> time AMD can try again, and if they manage to get their act together and
>> publish something before I get to write the code and invent a name for a
>> magical bit, they get to name it how they like.
>
> It is unlikely that you'll have to do that again.

That's a purely speculative assumption.