From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752321AbZEUGQe (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2009 02:16:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751305AbZEUGQZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2009 02:16:25 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:34200 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751034AbZEUGQZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 May 2009 02:16:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4A14F15C.2050503@kernel.org> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 23:14:52 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Linux Kernel Organization, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Herrmann CC: Jaswinder Singh Rajput , Ingo Molnar , Robert Richter , Dave Jones , LKML , x86 maintainers Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/10 -tip] x86: Add cpufeatures for Advanced Power Management References: <1242142530.2547.11.camel@ht.satnam> <1242142623.2547.13.camel@ht.satnam> <1242142692.2547.15.camel@ht.satnam> <1242142753.2547.16.camel@ht.satnam> <1242155190.2492.73.camel@ht.satnam> <20090513062748.GE9991@alberich.amd.com> In-Reply-To: <20090513062748.GE9991@alberich.amd.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Herrmann wrote: > > What's the point of adding power managment flags twice? > Most of it is already displayed in /proc/cpuinfo under > "power management". > And that is user-space visible, so even if we unify the array (which may be worthwhile) we cannot change the way they're presented to userspace. -hpa