From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:26:19 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: /proc/cpuinfo "physical id" field cleanups
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Hi Tony,

* Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>:
> * Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com>:
> > > The only real change from the prior version is that I change the
> > > intialization of socket_id to 0 as default. I think the benefit
> > > of displaying information from PAL/SAL (when available) on older
> > > platforms outweighs the oddity that the user may see physical_id
> > > = 0 for multiple CPUs occasionally.
> > 
> > Can't we not print the physical_id if we don't know what it is? That
> > sounds like a better idea than printing wrong information.
> 
> Sure, that sounds like a much better idea. Here's try #3 (go back
> to old initialization of socket_id = -1, and decide in
> show_cpuinfo whether we should print it or not).

Did this patch work for you?

Thanks.

/ac