From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752991Ab3A3F7y (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:59:54 -0500 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 Message-ID: <5108B718.3050507@ti.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:30:56 +0530 From: Santosh Shilimkar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruslan Bilovol CC: , , , , , Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] ARM: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name References: <1359506337-21619-1-git-send-email-ruslan.bilovol@ti.com> In-Reply-To: <1359506337-21619-1-git-send-email-ruslan.bilovol@ti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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