From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Daniel Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Hypervisor detection and get tsc_freq from hypervisor
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:01:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081027110134.GC13641@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224894104.28224.72.camel@alok-dev1>
* Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> wrote:
> The DMI + Backdoor [...]
please do _NOT_ call anything like this a "backdoor", anywhere in the
source or the commit log. "Backdoor" is most commonly used for
intentional security holes, and we dont want anything like that in the
kernel code. What this code implements is not a backdoor, it is simply
a facility to discover the hypervisor environment, not a "backdoor".
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-27 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-25 0:21 [PATCH 2/4] Hypervisor detection and get tsc_freq from hypervisor Alok Kataria
2008-10-27 11:01 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-10-27 17:41 ` Alok Kataria
2008-11-03 19:31 ` Alok Kataria
2008-11-10 12:38 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-10 15:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
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