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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	paulus@samba.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Add translation mode information in /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 19:03:01 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1487750581.23576.217.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ec533a5-daf6-4644-ffea-e940fe3e77f9@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2017-02-22 at 11:19 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> I avoided using MMU, because it will confuse hardware guys.

Why would it ? I don't see how anybody would be confused. And they
aren't the primary consumers of /proc/cpuinfo anyway. I agree with
Michal here.

>  Radix is not 
> clearly the full definition of
> Memory management unit, but rather the translation mode used by memory 
> management unit. But
> i don't have strong opinion on this.

Who cares ? People understand :-) If you want call it "MMU Mode: if you
think it's cleared but I don't like too much having a space on the left
in case of stupid parsers...

> Do you want me to send an updated patch ? or you can update it when you 
> apply it to your tree ?
> 
> -aneesh

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-22  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-19 10:17 [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Add translation mode information in /proc/cpuinfo Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-02-22  0:23 ` Balbir Singh
2017-02-22  5:45 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-02-22  5:49   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-02-22  8:03     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2017-02-27  9:56     ` Michael Ellerman

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