Re: [PATCH v1 00/26] x86: Introduce centralized CPUID model

"Ahmed S. Darwish" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.x86-cpuid,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <aBnM9WNo_dEjCvoU@lx-t490>
On Tue, 06 May 2025, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>  Overall namespace suggestion: could you please use 'parse_' verbiage,
> instead of 'scan_'? Even if a lot of the scan_ uses in this series are
> a temporary back and forth that goes away after the conversion, but
> still, some of it remains.
>
> Today 'scan' is not really used in this context, in the kernel at
> least, and I don't think it's a particularly good fit. 'Scanning'
> suggests searching for something or looking for something, which we
> don't really do: we parse the entire CPUID tree in essence, during
> bootstrap, and re-parse it when something changes about it on the
> hardware side. We don't really scan for anything in particular.
>
> Does this make sense?
>

Yup! will do.

Thanks,
Ahmed
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