From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huaitong Han <huaitong.han@intel.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] x86: use enum cpuid_leafs instead of magic numbers
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:21:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160121212109.GK21930@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A147F9.1000306@zytor.com>
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:04:57PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I'm wondering, though, if it wouldn't be better to turn these into
> macros so that they can be used in assembly code. That way the
> definitions can be interspersed with the X86_FEATURE_ definitions,
> too.
What concrete use case do you have in mind, i.e., example?
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-21 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-21 11:02 [PATCH V2] x86: use enum cpuid_leafs instead of magic numbers Huaitong Han
2016-01-21 11:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-21 21:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-21 21:21 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2016-01-21 21:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-21 21:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-21 21:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-21 21:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-01-21 21:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-01-21 21:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
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