[MODERATED] Re: [PATCH 2/2] more sampling fun 2

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 03:23:31PM +0100, speck for Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, speck for Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> 
> > Well, I see it the opposite way.  Those jumbles of letters do actually
> > mean something.  I still call them "MDS", "L1TF", "SSBD".  If you google
> 
> BTW as a sidenote -- I think you actually nicely demonstrated all the 
> confusion coming from all these crazy acronyms.
> 
> While MDS and L1TF are the names of the actual vulnerability, SSBD is 
> acronym for the mitigation.

Right - we should have just called it "ssb=", to match the Intel
acronym, instead of creating our own.

-- 
Josh