Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the crypto tree

From: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:27:33 +0200

* H. Peter Anvin <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Zhang, Austin wrote:
>>>> new x86 feature bits should definitely show up in the x86 tree too
>> So can we add sse4.1 into this patch also as: #define 
>> X86_FEATURE_XMM4_1	(4*32+19)
>> even though now no obvious user is asking it in kernel. 
>
> The best would be to:
>
> 1. rename all the feature bits which have inconsistent names in their
>    #defines and in /proc/cpuinfo;
> 2. generate the /proc/cpuinfo table
>    (arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c) automatically from
>    cpufeature.h.
>
> 2. is quite trivial, and 1. can be done largely automatically.  I will  
> experiment with this.

i see you committed that into tip/x86/cpu - i just integrated that into 
tip/master and pushed out the result. This way starting at v2.6.28 we'll 
have only a single, non-redundant definition for CPU feature 
information, from which we auto-generate the rest.

	Ingo