From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932652AbdJaSZt (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:25:49 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([5.9.137.197]:52272 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932543AbdJaSZr (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:25:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:25:40 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: "Yu, Fenghua" Cc: "Kammela, Gayatri" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "hpa@linux.intel.com" , Thomas Gleixner , "Kleen, Andi" , "Shankar, Ravi V" , "Neri, Ricardo" , "Zhong, Yang" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/cpufeatures: Enable new SSE/AVX/AVX512 cpu features Message-ID: <20171031182540.rcmzqjvmzbarjfpj@pd.tnic> References: <1509412829-23380-1-git-send-email-gayatri.kammela@intel.com> <20171031100619.q5asiqkbuqi2cecp@pd.tnic> <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C712207589C8CB@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C712207589C8CB@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 06:02:53PM +0000, Yu, Fenghua wrote: > As you said, the legacy code doesn't follow spec naming strictly > and the spec doesn't have uniform naming convention either. We are > contacting spec author to see if we can follow the same naming > convention in the future specs. Whatever you do, you should change it before it hits mainline because then it becomes user-space visible. So you can fix the kernel format first and then concentrate on changing the spec. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.