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Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Fetch XSAVE area component offsets and sizes when initializing x86 CPU



On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 08:32 -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Are there any userland programs that use cpu.h?  Or any kernel modules?
> 
> If so, these changes would create a change in the kernel API and would 
> therefore require a kernel version bump.
> 

I'm not really sure whether this breaks the API, so I'll bump
the version for a good measure.  Even if we aren't going to commit this
to 9.0, having the merge conflict will help me remember to update it.


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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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