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SubjectRe: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS, x86/CPU: Tony Luck will maintain asm/intel-family.h
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 03:47:05PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 10:22:07PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 07:54:55PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > So we should document the list of valid and usable ones and either fixup
> > broken ones or document that they are historic ballast and not to be used
> > for new ones. Otherwise you end up with the same discussions again.
>
> This version is a lot more specific (but still allows future
> flexibility). I see a world of bike-shedding if I try to come
> up with a naming scheme to fix previous questionable naming
> choices ... I'm not going to open that can of worms.
>
> -Tony
>
> From 093bf8cd02f4c7a3fa256c2cf7302014190e2840 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 11:16:24 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/cpu: Explain Intel model naming convention
>
> Dave Hansen spelled out the rules in an e-mail:
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/91eefbe4-e32b-d762-be4d-672ff915db47@intel.com
>
> Copy those right into the <asm/intel-family.h> file to
> make it easy for people to find them.
>
> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h
> index 0278aa66ef62..fe7c205233f1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h
> @@ -11,6 +11,21 @@
> * While adding a new CPUID for a new microarchitecture, add a new
> * group to keep logically sorted out in chronological order. Within
> * that group keep the CPUID for the variants sorted by model number.
> + *
> + * The defined symbol names have the following form:
> + * INTEL_FAM6{OPTFAMILY}_{MICROARCH}{OPTDIFF}

I think you want to have the underscores in the template:

INTEL_FAM6_{OPTFAMILY}_{MICROARCH}_{OPTDIFF}

but no need to resend if this is the only issue - I'll fix it up when
applying.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

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