Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name

2013-01-29 Thread Nishanth Menon
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Ruslan Bilovol wrote: > > SoC name: OMAP4470 ES1.0 HS I am sorry, but I have to NAK for specifically reasons explained in http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap=135950276616961=2 I just dont think SoC information belongs in /proc/cpuinfo. nor is SoC name

[RFC PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name

2013-01-29 Thread Ruslan Bilovol
Currently, reading /proc/cpuinfo provides userspace with CPU ID of the CPU carrying out the read from the file. Userspace using this information may decide what module to load or how to configure some specific (and processor-depended) settings or so. However, since really different SoCs can share

[RFC PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name

2013-01-29 Thread Ruslan Bilovol
Currently, reading /proc/cpuinfo provides userspace with CPU ID of the CPU carrying out the read from the file. Userspace using this information may decide what module to load or how to configure some specific (and processor-depended) settings or so. However, since really different SoCs can share

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: kernel: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name

2013-01-29 Thread Nishanth Menon
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Ruslan Bilovol ruslan.bilo...@ti.com wrote: SoC name: OMAP4470 ES1.0 HS I am sorry, but I have to NAK for specifically reasons explained in http://marc.info/?l=linux-omapm=135950276616961w=2 I just dont think SoC information belongs in /proc/cpuinfo. nor