Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/boot: clear some fields explicitly

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Jul 25 2019 - 18:03:41 EST


On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, hpa@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On July 25, 2019 2:48:30 PM PDT, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > But seriously I think it's not completely insane what they are doing
> > and the table based approach is definitely more readable and maintainable
> > than the existing stuff.
>
> Doing this table based does seem like a good idea.

The question is whether we use a 'toclear' table or a 'preserve' table. I'd
argue that the 'preserve' approach is saner.

> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

I surely excuse the brevity, but the formatting mess which that brevity app
creates is not excusable.

Thanks,

tglx
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Sent from a sane mail client. Nothing to excuse here. All failures are intentional.