Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758892Ab3EOMfI (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 May 2013 08:35:08 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:8627 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758567Ab3EOMfG (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 May 2013 08:35:06 -0400 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 08:34:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Nicolas Pitre To: Pavel Machek Cc: Will Deacon , Rob Herring , Marc Zyngier , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] ARM: delay: print dummy values for bogomips In-reply-to: <20130515114737.GA7900@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> Message-id: References: <1367602547-19322-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> <1367602547-19322-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> <20130506231554.GB16801@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <5188B8B2.5030601@arm.com> <20130515090103.GA12907@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> <20130515114737.GA7900@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Alpine 2.03 (LFD 1266 2009-07-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 980 Lines: 30 On Wed, 15 May 2013, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Wed 2013-05-15 10:01:03, Will Deacon wrote: > > My second (less stupid) version of the patch prints "not reported". Even then, you should tell the truth and say "not available" or "not applicable". > > I'd be happy to remove the line altogether if people get behind the > > decision though. You certainly have my ACK. > > In fact, I just tried it and at least my linaro filesystem seems happy > > enough. > > Would it be too much work to simply put the field back with the right > value? We don't have to get it as precise as we used to, that should > make slowdown minimum. There is simply no right value. And whenever there is a value, people read too much into it. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/