From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, cpufreq <cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:26:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051205172651.GC12664@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <439463C4.7040905@rtr.ca>
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:59:00AM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> >I can't think of a single valid reason why a program would want
^^^^^^^
> >to know the MHz rating of a CPU.
>
> Humans like to know what their machines are doing.
humans != programs
> Simple as that: it's for the end-users, and the place they look
> for it is always /proc/cpuinfo (since that works on every platform
> and on kernels prior to the 2.[56].* series.
Sure, 'cat' is the only reason its there at all.
> Not useful as an accurate number for any programming algorithms,
> but it is used to satisfy human curiosity. A lot.
I think we're in agreement, aren't we? :)
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-05 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-02 18:13 [PATCH] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo Venkatesh Pallipadi
2005-12-02 18:19 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-02 18:43 ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2005-12-04 16:43 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-12-04 18:32 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-04 19:49 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-04 20:13 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-04 21:01 ` Horst von Brand
2005-12-05 1:16 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-05 13:02 ` Erik Mouw
2005-12-05 17:25 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-05 17:27 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-06 11:13 ` Erik Mouw
2005-12-06 16:56 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-06 17:35 ` Erik Mouw
2005-12-05 15:32 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-05 18:36 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-05 15:59 ` Mark Lord
2005-12-05 17:26 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2005-12-05 16:29 ` Avi Kivity
2005-12-05 16:46 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-05 17:27 ` Dave Jones
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