Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261692AbVEJQhb (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 12:37:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261696AbVEJQhb (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 12:37:31 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:15854 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261692AbVEJQez (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 12:34:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4280E2A6.9040101@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 10:34:46 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Davidsen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jim Nance , Dave Jones , Willy Tarreau , Andrew Morton , Ricky Beam , nico-kernel@schottelius.org Subject: Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent! References: <20050507172005.GB26088@redhat.com><20050507172005.GB26088@redhat.com> <20050508012521.GA24268@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <427FA876.7000401@tmr.com> <427FC366.1000506@nortel.com> <4280DF80.9010409@tmr.com> In-Reply-To: <4280DF80.9010409@tmr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 588 Lines: 15 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Unless you actually have such a feature, saying "let's not make what we > have useful because we could have something better someday" seems to be > a needless sacrifice of electrons. This has already been addressed. If we add a crappy interface now, it will become very difficult to remove it in the future. Chris - 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/