Re: [PATCH] x86, cpufeature: Fix duplicate feature name "dts"

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Jun 21 2012 - 14:44:04 EST


On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:06:04AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/21/2012 10:07 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> >
> > And FWIW, X86_FEATURE_DS has no user in the kernel. Doesn't look like a
> > key feature to me, but maybe my view is biased...
> >
>
> No, but apparently perfmon2 depends on it, in userspace, and it relies
> on the string.
>
> So this is a nonstarter.

Maybe call the sensor thing "dtsen" or something similarly short but not
"dts"?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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