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On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 03:58:10PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Do you like the direction this is going?  Maybe I'm missing something.

Yeah, see

f43b9876e857 ("x86/retbleed: Add fine grained Kconfig knobs")

AFAIR, Linus wanted those this way so the only logical next step is to
add the Kconfig knobs for the missing ones...

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    Boris.

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