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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/CPU: Add native CPUID variants returning a single datum
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 10:30:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161229093012.GA11221@nazgul.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWgrh4FWL9naS5FTTkbqUituQy1swXYskRL8g4FiBvt5g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 10:11:22AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On a very quick read, it looks like none of your new call sites
> actually use the return value at all.  Since you also appear to be
> consolidating them all, would it make sense to just open-code the
> single (?) remaining user?

I've got stuff coming up which will use the retval but it is not fully
cooked yet. And also, we want to have generic helpers so that people do
not reimplement them left and right.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
--

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-29  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-28  4:39 [PATCH] x86: Fix Intel microcode revision detection Junichi Nomura
2016-12-28 11:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-12-28 11:20   ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/CPU: Add native CPUID variants returning a single datum Borislav Petkov
2016-12-28 18:11     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-12-29  9:30       ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2016-12-31  2:13         ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-12-31 11:09           ` Borislav Petkov
2017-01-03 18:35             ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-03 19:48               ` Borislav Petkov
2016-12-28 11:21   ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/microcode: Use native CPUID to tickle out microcode revision Borislav Petkov
2016-12-28 12:53     ` [PATCH 3/2] x86/microcode/intel: Add a helper which gives the " Borislav Petkov
2016-12-28 18:12       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-12-29  9:36         ` Borislav Petkov
2016-12-28 19:26       ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-12-29  9:38         ` Borislav Petkov
     [not found]   ` <0a84dd78-809f-c1ef-6adc-551a124170ad@ce.jp.nec.com>
2017-01-05  9:39     ` [PATCH] x86: Fix Intel microcode revision detection Borislav Petkov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-19 16:29 [PATCH 1/2] x86/CPU: Add native CPUID variants returning a single datum Evalds Iodzevics
2020-04-19 16:54 ` Greg KH
2020-04-20  5:52   ` Evalds Iodzevics
2020-04-20  6:07     ` Greg KH

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