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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/21/2012 11:44 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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"?
> 

Yeah, that's what we have to do.  Sigh.

	-hpa

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