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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: remove name from machine_desc for DT platforms
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 13:54:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131118135439.GC16735@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACxGe6sgRwiakJLUCtaaQ2NF51PpkoNZvZr6EoE-BPeZiDsDFQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 02:16:29AM +0900, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If this is a required feature then we should make machine_desc common
> > (or at least part of it) with the other arches that have copied arm and
> > then add it to arm64 as well. Then I could do further consolidation of
> > the FDT machine matching code. Otherwise this is all just pointless
> > architecture variation that really has nothing to do with the architecture.
> 
> I think you are missing my point. go ahead, take it out of
> /proc/cpuinfo. That's not the issue.

You do realise this is a user API issue, right?

http://fossies.org/dox/glibc-2.18/ports_2sysdeps_2unix_2sysv_2linux_2arm_2ioperm_8c_source.html

Right, it only has four strings which it matches against, but this is
evidence that /proc/cpuinfo is a user API, and the strings therein are
used by userspace in ways you don't expect.

We can't just go around removing things.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-18 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-03 20:50 [PATCH v2] ARM: remove name from machine_desc for DT platforms Rob Herring
     [not found] ` < CAOesGMg7Mt+p8U7Z5sLQDqoFG-QEUi94Vt=pxXM0NqyefBLxVA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-11-04 11:36 ` Grant Likely
2013-11-05 14:34   ` Rob Herring
2013-11-05 17:44     ` Matt Sealey
2013-11-11 17:38     ` Olof Johansson
2013-11-13 19:00       ` Rob Herring
2013-11-13 19:21         ` Olof Johansson
2013-11-13 20:04           ` Rob Herring
2013-11-14 12:32             ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]               ` < CACxGe6uMWjfmB4WDKs+vu05224jqpbDZBHT_ZXnqxw17JzUqvw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                 ` < 5284E236.1000606@gmail.com>
     [not found]                   ` < CACxGe6sgRwiakJLUCtaaQ2NF51PpkoNZvZr6EoE-BPeZiDsDFQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-11-14 13:33               ` Grant Likely
2013-11-14 14:46                 ` Rob Herring
2013-11-14 17:16                   ` Grant Likely
2013-11-14 23:17                     ` Rob Herring
2013-11-18 12:59                       ` Grant Likely
2013-11-18 13:54                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2013-11-19 13:43                       ` Grant Likely
2013-11-21 23:53                       ` Rob Herring
2013-11-15 19:13                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-11-15 20:16                     ` Rob Herring
2013-11-15 21:05                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-11-14 20:33 ` Matt Sealey
2013-11-15 16:08   ` Rob Herring

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