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Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:46:54 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 12:07:59PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Unless someone like Linus shuts down this effort with a NAK, this kind of 
> harmonization would be welcome IMHO:

Harmonization being done for whom?

Because I doubt users read Kconfig names. So you must be wanting it for
us, who do stare at that code.

Which brings me to my initial question from uptread:

"What does the same namespace give you? So you see in the code a bunch
of ifdeffery and some or all of them have CONFIG_MITIGATION_ prepended.
To me it doesn't matter whether they're mitigations or not - it is just
the next Kconfig symbol."

IOW, I don't see the particular reason for having those namespaced. But
since you and Josh care so much and I don't - not that much :-) - and
I definitely won't be doing the work, feel free.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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