[MODERATED] Re: Re: [PATCH v7 04/10] TAAv7 4

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 08:12:15PM +0200, speck for Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:00:32AM -0700, speck for Pawan Gupta wrote:
> > It was called taa= in earlier versions. There was a feedback to change
> > it to tsx_async_abort=.
> 
> I know, I'm just saying it is confusing.
> 
> > tsx_async_abort is consistent with sysfs file.
> > 
> > 	/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort
> 
> Well, that's not really an argument.

It might have been Linus that objected to "taa" (but I can't
recall if it was for the sysfs file name, or the boot argument)

Rationale was that in a couple of years time nobody will
remember what "taa" stands for.

-Tony