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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:59:00 -0500
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To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, cpufreq <cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

 >I can't think of a single valid reason why a program would want
 >to know the MHz rating of a CPU.

Humans like to know what their machines are doing.

Simple as that:  it's for the end-users, and the place they look
for it is always /proc/cpuinfo (since that works on every platform
and on kernels prior to the 2.[56].* series.

Not useful as an accurate number for any programming algorithms,
but it is used to satisfy human curiosity.  A lot.

--ml