From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linutronix.de (193.142.43.55:993) by crypto-ml.lab.linutronix.de with IMAP4-SSL for ; 30 Oct 2019 13:29:10 -0000 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]) by Galois.linutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1iPo29-0001xD-Il for speck@linutronix.de; Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:29:10 +0100 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:28:58 +0100 From: Greg KH Subject: [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH 3/9] TAA 3 Message-ID: <20191030132858.GA703436@kroah.com> References: <580e02757c3e639bff00fcea830aa46eba46a92f.1571905227.git.bp@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <580e02757c3e639bff00fcea830aa46eba46a92f.1571905227.git.bp@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: speck@linutronix.de List-ID: On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:01:53AM +0200, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote: > From: Pawan Gupta > Subject: [PATCH 3/9] x86/cpu: Add a "tsx=" cmdline option with TSX disabled by > default > As late at this is, I really would like to change the name here. We already have a powerpc command line option to disable this for those chips, and we should use the same name here as well. I talked a bit about this with some powerpc people and they really want to disable this option as well, much like is being done here, for lots of other, non-security reasons. So can we please go back to the generic name so that we have some unification, making userspace stuff more uniform? thanks, greg k-h