Re: [PATCH v11 04/13] x86/cpufeatures: Add Bandwidth Monitoring Event Configuration feature flag

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jan 24 2023 - 14:11:53 EST


On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 01:03:32PM -0600, Moger, Babu wrote:
> Yes. It is available.  But, the feature BMEC is not explicitly available.
> I was thinking making all of them explicit. But we can live with that for
> now. We can think about this in the future.

Yes, you can always think about a solution when the requirement presents itself.
What I find the wrong approach is thinking that someone *might* need it and then
devising some solution. Wait for the actual use case first and then think of a
proper solution.

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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