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Date: Tue, 9 May 2023 20:41:35 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make config X86_FEATURE_NAMES visible with EXPERT
On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 11:38:27AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> This actually isn't _great_ for x86. We hid X86_FEATURE_NAMES behind
> EMBEDDED because we didn't want to see it 99% of the time. But just
> about everyone uses EXPERT=y, so the end result here is that everyone
> will now see X86_FEATURE_NAMES.
>
> Oh well. It's just one Kconfig option. Not a big deal.
Or we can make it unconditional. I haven't heard anything from the tiny
.config folks in a while and a !X86_FEATURE_NAMES kernel is just
unfriendly.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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