Re: [PATCH v8 04/12] x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > Thanks for pointing this out, Andi. I've been just now writing more or 
> > less the same thing; ditching that and will reuse your patch instead.
> > 
> > Why was the more aggresive version (6cfb521ac0d5b) merged into Linus' tree 
> > instead of that?
> 
> Greg prefered using modversions

Ah. OK, Greg: I'll eat my hat (I've heard that's very popular these times) 
if there is a major enterprise distro that doesn't revert this patch 
immediately.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs