On 05/11/2017 10:46 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Paul Clarke <p...@us.ibm.com> writes:
>> On 05/11/2017 06:24 AM, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>>> Provide a dt_cpu_ftrs= cmdline option to disable the dt_cpu_ftrs CPU
>>> feature discovery, and fall back to the "cputable" based version.
>>
>> This boat has already sailed, I think, but "ftrs"?
>
> What you think vowels grow on trees! :)
At least you're using lower-case, which takes less space. ;-)
>> Was it too difficult to type "features"?
I see "ftrs" and think "footers".
> For the command line option we could spell out features.
>
> But should we also expand "dt", and "cpu" ?
>
> device_tree_central_processing_unit_features=off
I'm not the biggest fan of "dt" ("devtree", anyone?), but that's certainly
established.
So _that's_ what "cpu" stands for! ;-)
> :P
>
>> This seems like something that should be easy and intuitive to find
>> and understand.
>
> Maybe. Ideally no one will ever use it, certainly not end users, it's
> primarily intended for developers doing bring-up.
I'm a developer, and I like to be able to understand something at a glance.
(Hmm, what are "CPU footers"?)
:-P
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