Re: [PATCH v2] x86/cpufeatures: Enable new SSE/AVX/AVX512 cpu features

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Oct 31 2017 - 14:25:52 EST


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.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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