linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/15] x86: Remove support for TSC-less and CX8-less CPUs

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Message-ID: <9995c81d-1366-445d-8232-bede33ce68af@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 15:06:16 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>,
        Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Ahmed S . Darwish" <darwi@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/15] x86: Remove support for TSC-less and CX8-less
 CPUs

On 5/13/25 15:02, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2025 at 14:55, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@...am.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>>   Hmm, a .mailmap artifact perhaps
> 
> Ahh, indeed. I was looking at commit feea1db26e5b ("[PATCH] defxx: Use
> irqreturn_t for the interrupt handler") from 2005, but yes, the raw
> commit information has your linux-mips address, and it's just that
> "git log" will translate it to something much newer...
> 
> But I really don't think we've ever been *so* strict about pgp keys
> having all the proper pgp key signature chains. Yes, it's the normal
> rule and the regular way people identify themselves, but nothing
> should ever be mindlessly black-and-white.

Having the discussion with Maciej offlist.

The issue here is obviously not that Maciej is qualified to have a 
kernel.org account (I consider that to be a given), but that we need to 
avoid a "Jia Tan" incident.

	-hpa