From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] wire up CPU features to udev based module loading
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 07:09:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a36043f3-15cc-40a4-9226-70e357ceb4d8@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131107223046.GK1962@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
I assumed he was referring to just dropping those fields of they didn't make sense for the architecture. That would make sense to do.
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> - 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-08 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-07 17:17 [RFC PATCH 0/4] wire up CPU features to udev based module loading Ard Biesheuvel
2013-11-07 17:17 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] x86: move arch_cpu_uevent() to generic code Ard Biesheuvel
2013-11-07 17:17 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] cpu: advertise CPU features over udev in a generic way Ard Biesheuvel
2013-11-07 19:33 ` Dave Martin
2013-11-07 20:00 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2013-11-07 20:55 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2013-11-07 17:17 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] scripts/mod: add generic CPU features as module alias Ard Biesheuvel
2013-11-07 17:17 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] arm64: advertise CPU features using module aliases Ard Biesheuvel
2013-11-07 21:09 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] wire up CPU features to udev based module loading H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-07 21:39 ` Andi Kleen
2013-11-07 22:15 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2013-11-07 22:30 ` Andi Kleen
2013-11-08 15:09 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-11-07 22:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-08 10:20 ` Ard
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