Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] x86/bugs: Rename entry_ibpb()
From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Wed Apr 02 2025 - 20:34:56 EST
On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 09:37:07PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > There's nothing entry-specific about entry_ibpb(). In preparation for
> > calling it from elsewhere, rename it to __write_ibpb().
>
> Minor Git-log hygienic request, could you please mention in such
> patches what the *new* name is?
>
> This title is annoyingly passive-aggressive:
LOL
> x86/bugs: Rename entry_ibpb()
>
> Let's make it:
>
> x86/bugs: Rename entry_ibpb() to write_ibpb()
>
> ... or so. Because the new name is infinitely more important going
> forward than the old name is ever going to be. :-)
Indeed, thanks.
--
Josh