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Date:   Thu, 15 Aug 2019 22:14:48 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/CPU/AMD: Clear RDRAND CPUID bit on AMD family
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 01:47:24PM +0000, Lendacky, Thomas wrote:
> > I think this is a clearer indication that the action has taken place.
> 
> Yeah, but what does that bring us? You wanna know this now, while
> testing. Once that whole effort is done, it is a useless printing of
> info which you have in cpuinfo already.

No. Print something useful in dmesg, telling the user that and also why
this has been disabled.

That avoids stupid questions and if they come up nevertheless we can reduce
the answer to LMGT4Y.

Thanks,

	tglx