From: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] arch/x86: Rename config X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS to generic x86
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 10:45:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a77cbb76-8a68-59a6-942b-08b27f86fc04@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f4fa674-5709-ad88-c7ae-1bf5584a5b82@intel.com>
On 5/12/20 10:19 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 5/12/20 7:57 AM, Babu Moger wrote:
>>> I was hoping to see at least *some* justification in this changelog. Do
>>> you think having "INTEL_" will confuse users? Is there some technical
>>> merit to this change?
>>>
>>> The naming churn is an obviously bad, not technically necessary change.
>> Yes. Technically not necessary. But can cause some confusion on non-intel
>> platforms.
>
> Seriously, guys, this is buried deep in kernel code. Who is this confusing?
>
> To me, this is like anything else we rename in the kernel. It causes
> churn, which makes patches harder to backport for instance. That's why
> we don't rename things willy-nilly when we just don't like the names.
>
> The naming has to cause some practical, real-world problem that we *FIX*
> with the rename.
>
> I'm just asking for a concrete, practical problem statement in the
> changelog. If there isn't one, then please don't do the rename. The
> Kconfig magic is still fine since it fixes a practical problem for end
> users.
>
Alright. Alright. I will just keep Kconfig magic and update the
documentation(protection-keys.rst). Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-12 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-11 23:32 [PATCH v3 0/3] arch/x86: Enable MPK feature on AMD Babu Moger
2020-05-11 23:32 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] arch/x86: Rename config X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS to generic x86 Babu Moger
2020-05-11 23:44 ` Dave Hansen
2020-05-12 14:57 ` Babu Moger
2020-05-12 15:19 ` Dave Hansen
2020-05-12 15:45 ` Babu Moger [this message]
2020-05-11 23:33 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] KVM: x86: Move pkru save/restore to x86.c Babu Moger
2020-05-12 16:39 ` Jim Mattson
2020-05-12 17:17 ` Babu Moger
2020-05-13 6:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-11 23:33 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] KVM: x86: Move MPK feature detection to common code Babu Moger
2020-05-11 23:51 ` Jim Mattson
2020-05-12 15:12 ` Babu Moger
2020-05-12 16:58 ` Jim Mattson
2020-05-12 17:28 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-05-12 20:04 ` Babu Moger
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