On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:49:35AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:10:35PM +0000, Ray, Mark C (Global Solutions 
> Engineering (GSE)) wrote:
> > Hi Ming,
> > 
> > In the customer case, the cpu_list file was not needed.   It was just part 
> > of a SAP Hana script to collect all the block device data (similar to 
> > sosreport).    So they were just dumping everything, and it picks up the 
> > mq-related files.  
> > 
> > I know with IRQs, we have bitmaps/mask, and can represent the list such as 
> > "0-27", without listing every CPU.   I'm sure there's lots of options to 
> > address this, and getting rid of the cpu_list is one of them.
> 
> Indeed, same with several attributes under /sys/devices/system/cpu/,
> actually we can use cpumap_print_to_pagebuf() to print the CPUs.

And that is changing the format of the file, which means it is obvious
no one is using it, so just please delete the thing.

thanks,

greg k-h

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