From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] x86: align x86 arch with generic CPU modalias handling
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:16:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E93768.5000103@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391014246-9715-4-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
On 01/29/2014 08:50 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The x86 CPU feature modalias handling existed before it was reimplemented
> generically. This patch aligns the x86 handling so that it
> (a) reuses some more code that is now generic;
> (b) uses the generic format for the modalias module metadata entry, i.e., it
> now uses 'cpu:type:x86,venVVVVfamFFFFmodMMMM:feature:,XXXX,YYYY' instead of
> the 'x86cpu:vendor:VVVV:family:FFFF:model:MMMM:feature,XXXX,YYYY' that was
> used before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Looks good, although I have not tested it.
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
-hpa
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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, arnd@arndb.de,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86: align x86 arch with generic CPU modalias handling
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:16:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E93768.5000103@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391014246-9715-4-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
On 01/29/2014 08:50 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The x86 CPU feature modalias handling existed before it was reimplemented
> generically. This patch aligns the x86 handling so that it
> (a) reuses some more code that is now generic;
> (b) uses the generic format for the modalias module metadata entry, i.e., it
> now uses 'cpu:type:x86,venVVVVfamFFFFmodMMMM:feature:,XXXX,YYYY' instead of
> the 'x86cpu:vendor:VVVV:family:FFFF:model:MMMM:feature,XXXX,YYYY' that was
> used before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Looks good, although I have not tested it.
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-29 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-29 16:50 [PATCH 0/5] generic CPU feature based udev module autoprobing Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-29 16:50 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-29 16:50 ` [PATCH 1/5] cpu: move arch_cpu_uevent() to generic code Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-29 16:50 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-29 16:50 ` [PATCH 2/5] cpu: add generic support for CPU feature based module autoloading Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-29 16:50 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-02-03 17:13 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-02-03 17:13 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-29 16:50 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86: align x86 arch with generic CPU modalias handling Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-29 16:50 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-29 17:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-01-29 17:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-29 16:50 ` [PATCH 4/5] arm64: enable generic CPU feature modalias matching for this arch Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-29 16:50 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-29 16:50 ` [PATCH 5/5] arm64: add Crypto Extensions based synchronous core AES cipher Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-29 16:50 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-30 18:56 ` Will Deacon
2014-01-30 18:56 ` Will Deacon
2014-01-30 19:20 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-01-30 19:20 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-02-03 16:17 ` Will Deacon
2014-02-03 16:17 ` Will Deacon
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