From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:15:36 +0100 Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Add generic macros for declaring various CPU structs In-Reply-To: <20110616101241.GA4028@e102144-lin.cambridge.arm.com> References: <1308049105-16080-1-git-send-email-dave.martin@linaro.org> <20110616101241.GA4028@e102144-lin.cambridge.arm.com> Message-ID: <20110616101536.GA32629@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:12:41AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > > * For consistency, I've renamed the arch/CPU name string labels. > > If that is seen as unnecessary churn, it can be undone. > > I don't see the win here, so let's leave the names like they are to avoid > unnecessary conflicts with other patches dealing with proc_info structs. One of the issues is that there are proc-* files which use the same strings for several entries, for example, proc-xscale.S. In general, the ELF name and arch name should be the same across all, just the CPU name should differ.