From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755228Ab3KGWay (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Nov 2013 17:30:54 -0500 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:14183 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752751Ab3KGWar (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Nov 2013 17:30:47 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,535,1378882800"; d="scan'208";a="405295496" Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 14:30:46 -0800 From: Andi Kleen To: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , tglx@linutronix.de, Ingo Molnar , Steve Capper Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] wire up CPU features to udev based module loading Message-ID: <20131107223046.GK1962@tassilo.jf.intel.com> References: <1383844657-17487-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> <527C0195.50008@zytor.com> <20131107213944.GJ1962@tassilo.jf.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > - the module aliases host tool has no arch specific dependencies at > all except having x86cpu as one of the entries: would you mind > dropping the x86 prefix there? Or rather add dependencies on $ARCH? > (If we drop it there, we basically end up with 'cpu:' everywhere) Should be fine. > - in the vendor/family/model case, it may be preferable to drop these > fields entirely from certain modules' aliases if they match on 'any' > (provided that the module tools permit this) rather than add > architecture, variant, revision, etc fields for all architectures if > they can only ever match on one The module tools require everything matching with the same wild cards. So I don't know how "any" would work. -Andi