Re: [PATCH V2 4/4] MIPS: Loongson: Make CPU names more clear

[陈华才 <chenhc@lemote.com>]

OK, I will resend this patch after a long time, until no applications be broken.
 
BTW, can these two patches be merged? or do they have problems to be fix?
http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11272/
http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11273/
 
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From:  "Ralf Baechle"<ralf@linux-mips.org>;
Date:  Tue, Nov 10, 2015 07:12 PM
To:  "Huacai Chen"<chenhc@lemote.com>;
Cc:  "John Crispin"<john@phrozen.org>; "Steven J. Hill"<Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>; "linux-mips"<linux-mips@linux-mips.org>; "Fuxin Zhang"<zhangfx@lemote.com>; "wuzhangjin"<wuzhangjin@gmail.com>;
Subject:  Re: [PATCH V2 4/4] MIPS: Loongson: Make CPU names more clear
 
On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 02:08:02PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:

> Make names in /proc/cpuinfo more human-readable, Since GCC support the
> new-style names for a long time, this may not break -march=native any
> more.

I do understand why you want to make this change - but things in proc
including CPU names are interfaces and those are cast in stone.  You
can't just call a potatoe a cherry today :-)

Unless you have a good reason which would include demonstrating that is
not breaking any existing application code?

  Ralf