Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/CPU: Add native CPUID variants returning a single datum

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Dec 29 2016 - 04:30:21 EST


On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 10:11:22AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On a very quick read, it looks like none of your new call sites
> actually use the return value at all. Since you also appear to be
> consolidating them all, would it make sense to just open-code the
> single (?) remaining user?

I've got stuff coming up which will use the retval but it is not fully
cooked yet. And also, we want to have generic helpers so that people do
not reimplement them left and right.

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