On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 03:51:49PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 02:19:48PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:

> > > -  4) ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1 - Instruction set attribute register 1
> > > +  5) ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1 - Instruction set attribute register 1

> > If I'm not mistaken .rst has support for auto-enumeration if the #
> > character is used. That might reduce the pain of re-numbering in future.

> Ack, though it would be good to go one better and generate this document
> from the cpufeature.c tables (or from some common source).  The numbers
> are relatively easy to maintain -- remembering to update the document
> at all seems the bigger maintenance headache right now.

I agree, it'd be better if the table were autogenerated.  Having tried
doing the modification to # it does mean that the document looks a bit
weird when viewing it as a text file in the kernel source which TBH is
how I suspect a lot of people will view it so given the infrequency with
which new registers are added I'm not sure it's worth it.

> I think this particular patch is superseded by similar fixes from other
> people, just not in torvalds/master yet.

Nor in -next for the minute :/