On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 07:29:54PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 12:16:28PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote: > > Allowing 13:24 as input would be icing on the cake :) > > Well, I'm kinda "meh" on that. Why, you ask? > > Well, whether the user multiplies two integers or the kernel does it for > her/him, I'd prefer the user. > > But that's not even the problem - whether the product of the word number > and the bit within that word, or the two supplied as a pair - either is > the wrong interface. It is ugly and not even close to even beginning to > be user-friendly. > > However, we can't make it fully user-friendly yet because not all bits > have names. :-\ > > But you know what, that doesn't matter too because that clearcpuid= > thing is mainly for poking at sh*t and testing, not meant for users. > Thus the tainting... > > So I guess the one who needs it, can go the minute distance and do the > multiplication. According to that argument, adding the string parsing is > not really needed too, but it is simple enough so WTH. > > I've incorporated all your other comments, see below. > > Thx! >
Thanks. Maybe also mention in the documentation that names can now be used.
