From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756737Ab3A2QCw (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:02:52 -0500 Received: from devils.ext.ti.com ([198.47.26.153]:47332 "EHLO devils.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752022Ab3A2QCt (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:02:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:02:44 -0600 From: Nishanth Menon To: Ruslan Bilovol CC: , , , , , Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] ARM: update cpuinfo to print CPU model name Message-ID: <20130129160243.GA3389@kahuna> References: <1359474865-15408-1-git-send-email-ruslan.bilovol@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1359474865-15408-1-git-send-email-ruslan.bilovol@ti.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 17:54-20130129, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: > Hi, > > The following patches update cpuinfo to print CPU > model name for ARM. First patch exactly makes needed > changes for ARM architecture. > Second patch adds this ability to OMAP4 SoCs. > > This adds a common approach to show SoC name. > > Looks like there were few attempts to do similar > changes to cpuinfo without any luck. > > So - comments are welcome > > Ruslan Bilovol (2): > ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print CPU model name > ARM: OMAP4: setup CPU model name during ID initialisation We had an discussion on similar lines but a generic suggestion: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/98720/ SoCinfo framework which was supposed to introduce this Would'nt that be a better approach to take than an OMAP only solution? Ccying eduardo who had driven this for some time. -- Regards, Nishanth Menon