Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86/bugs: Remove MDS command line

[Dave Hansen]

On 9/24/24 15:31, Daniel Sneddon wrote:
> -	mds=		[X86,INTEL,EARLY]
> -			Control mitigation for the Micro-architectural Data
> -			Sampling (MDS) vulnerability.

As much as I'd love to remove old code, won't this surprise users if we
just take this away?

I suspect the _least_ we can do is warn folks if they use something that
we recently ripped out.  But the right thing is probably to keep the old
one around for at least a while. <sigh>