From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:52:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Prefix revision number in /proc/cpuinfo
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:58:07PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> The revision field in /proc/cpuinfo is reported as hex number, so it
> should have a '0x' prefix to make that clear. Otherwise, parsers
> will take it as decimal number unless it contains a letter.

So what you're doing is possibly breaking existing parsers (which
probably already assume it is hex) to fix buggy parsers?