Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932448AbVLEP7F (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:59:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932446AbVLEP7F (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:59:05 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:20454 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932448AbVLEP7D (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:59:03 -0500 Message-ID: <439463C4.7040905@rtr.ca> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:59:00 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051013 Debian/1.7.12-1ubuntu1 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones Cc: Lee Revell , Andi Kleen , Venkatesh Pallipadi , Andrew Morton , cpufreq , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo References: <20051202181927.GD9766@wotan.suse.de> <20051202104320.A5234@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20051204164335.GB32492@isilmar.linta.de> <20051204183239.GE14247@wotan.suse.de> <1133725767.19768.12.camel@mindpipe> <20051205011611.GA12664@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20051205011611.GA12664@redhat.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: 698 Lines: 18 >I can't think of a single valid reason why a program would want >to know the MHz rating of a CPU. Humans like to know what their machines are doing. Simple as that: it's for the end-users, and the place they look for it is always /proc/cpuinfo (since that works on every platform and on kernels prior to the 2.[56].* series. Not useful as an accurate number for any programming algorithms, but it is used to satisfy human curiosity. A lot. --ml - 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/