From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Santosh Shilimkar Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] ARM: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:30:56 +0530 Message-ID: <5108B718.3050507@ti.com> References: <1359506337-21619-1-git-send-email-ruslan.bilovol@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bear.ext.ti.com ([192.94.94.41]:44035 "EHLO bear.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751385Ab3A3F7x (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:59:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1359506337-21619-1-git-send-email-ruslan.bilovol@ti.com> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Ruslan Bilovol Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony@atomide.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, eduardo.valentin@ti.com On Wednesday 30 January 2013 06:08 AM, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: > The following patches update cpuinfo to print SoC > model name for ARM. > The first patch exactly makes needed changes for ARM > architecture and adds a common approach to show SoC name. > Second patch uses this approach for OMAP4 SoCs (as live > example). > > Looks like there were few attempts to do similar > changes to cpuinfo without any luck (had stuck > on review) so this functionality is still not > in the kernel yet. > In this patch series the update to cpuinfo is very > short (10 lines) and easy. > > Comments are welcome as usual > As most of the people already commented, your purpose behind the series isn't clear so please give examples where and why you need device type information from user-space. Regards, Santosh