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Date:   Mon, 12 Jun 2023 20:13:15 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpu/bugs: Disable CPU mitigations at compilation time
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On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 11:06:35AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >           If you say N, all mitigations will be disabled. You really
> >           should know what you are doing to say so.
> 
> I would say:                         doing to say No.
> 
> Was there a typo there?

I don't think so - it reads right to me this way too. Yours would simply
make it more explicit but the "so" is the "N" at the beginning of the
sentence:

"You really should know what you're doing to say so, i.e., the N".

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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