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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:11:21 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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To: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, cpufeature: Fix duplicate feature name "dts"
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On 06/21/2012 11:44 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:06:04AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 06/21/2012 10:07 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
>>>
>>> And FWIW, X86_FEATURE_DS has no user in the kernel. Doesn't look like a
>>> key feature to me, but maybe my view is biased...
>>>
>>
>> No, but apparently perfmon2 depends on it, in userspace, and it relies
>> on the string.
>>
>> So this is a nonstarter.
> 
> Maybe call the sensor thing "dtsen" or something similarly short but not
> "dts"?
> 

Yeah, that's what we have to do.  Sigh.

	-hpa

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