Re: [PATCH] i386: add command line option "local_apic_timer_c2_ok"

Linus Torvalds
2007-03-29T22:02:38Z

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Andreas Mohr wrote:
>
> Please don't, this would break the interface logically.
> X86_FEATURE_xxx usually denotes a *feature*, not a "feature"
> (Micro$oft speak for "bug" ;).

Sure, we could make it positive instead, and I agree it would make code
nicer to read.

> Thus, how about e.g. X86_FEATURE_LAPIC_C1_OK?

I have no trouble at all with something like that instead. Anybody willing
to cook up a patch?

Linus