Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/boot: clear some fields explicitly

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 7/25/19 3:03 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, hpa@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> On July 25, 2019 2:48:30 PM PDT, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> But seriously I think it's not completely insane what they are doing
> >>> and the table based approach is definitely more readable and maintainable
> >>> than the existing stuff.
> >>
> >> Doing this table based does seem like a good idea.
> > 
> > The question is whether we use a 'toclear' table or a 'preserve' table. I'd
> > argue that the 'preserve' approach is saner.
> > 
> I agree.

Now we just need to volunteer someone to do that :)

> >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
> > 
> > I surely excuse the brevity, but the formatting mess which that brevity app
> > creates is not excusable.
> > 
> 
> I'll try to improve it...

SCNR ...