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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
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On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 01:51:56PM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Anyway, we can update the tool to print "%02x-%02x-%02x-%02x.%s" instead of 
> "%d". That's trivial to us. I just don't think it's a worthwhile change, 

As I wrote to Tony, "I guess time will show whether the sequence number
thing was a good idea."

Just remember that changing a user-visible interface after the fact is a
lot harder.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette