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Date:   Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:20:55 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM / arch: x86: Rework the MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 08:58:07AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So I hate /dev/msr with a passion. It is absolute atrocious crap.
> 
> Please, just make a real interface for this if it is important.

Yeah, and we will start converting everything using /dev/msr to real
interfaces and then taint on MSR write because, this should not have
been allowed in the first place.

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    Boris.

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