Re: [PATCH] sparc64: Add ADI capability to cpu capabilities

[Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>]

On 12/15/2015 08:13 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:25:42 -0700
>
>> adi is the externally visible name for this feature and that is how it
>> is referenced in the docs. Firmware encodes it as "adp" for its
>> internal use and that is how it shows up in hwcap-list property. So
>> this code translates it from firmware internal name to the external
>> name which would make sense to someone looking at /proc/cpuinfo.
>
> I totally disagree with changing the string.
>
> If the firmware provides X that's what we should publish in the
> cap list.  It doesn't really matter what the docs say.
>
> Otherwise we have this rediculous set of translations whenever
> something like this pops up again, and that kind of crud tends
> to accumulate.
>

It is a marketing/copyright thing, but I agree with you :) Let me check 
with marketing if they are ok with not doing the translation.

Thanks,
Khalid