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From:   Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Date:   Mon, 14 Mar 2022 17:08:18 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use builtins to read eflags
To:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 4:10 PM H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/16/21 11:55, Bill Wendling wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 4:57 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> Bill,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Dec 15 2021 at 13:18, Bill Wendling wrote:
> >>
> >> please always CC the relevant mailing lists, i.e. this lacks a cc:
> >> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> >>
> > I thought that was automatically added. But as Peter pointed out in
> > another email thread, no one has time to read the LKML, so it seems a
> > bit pointless? Nonetheless it's added now.
> >
>
> Consider linux-kernel a distributed archive. Noone reads it in real
> time, but it is really great to be able to search for someone specific
> in one place.
>
Ah! Okay. That makes more sense then. :-)

-bw