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How about doing what the Linux kernel does -- and has been doing -- instead of trying to pick a new policy a few years into the kernel dealing with TDX? "TDX module" was the first and it's 20x more common in the history than the next closest one: $ git log -p arch/x86/ | grep -i -o 'tdx[- ]module' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n 2 TDX-module 21 TDX-Module 26 TDX Module 501 TDX module If you don't have a strong preference, why are you arguing for change now?