Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] x86/cpu: Clear feature bits disabled at compile-time

[Sohil Mehta]

On 2/12/2026 4:14 PM, Sohil Mehta wrote:
> On 2/12/2026 3:47 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 03:04:44PM -0800, Sohil Mehta wrote:
>>> Can we just deprecate the "Flags" bits of /proc/cpuinfo at this point?
>>>
>>> No production software can be using this meaningfully.
>>
>> Before you do, grep glibc sources.
>>
> 
> I meant freeze at whatever we have today but stop adding to it. As
> described below, it has been buggy for *some* features for a long time.
> 

On further thought, I realized that it would be impractical to implement
such a freeze. And maintaining the two separate interfaces could become
a lot of burden.