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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: mtrr_cleanup update command line
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Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> E.g., the "apic" entries are not grouped together and these mtrr entries should
> not be grouped together unless they all begin with "mtrr", which is an option here:
> they could be renamed to "mtrr-cleanup" and "mtrr-nocleanup".
> And "disable_mtrr_trim" could be renamed to "mtrr-notrim".
> 

That does collide with the (not always kept) convention of prefixing 
"no" to disable a boolean option, though.

	-hpa