Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932468AbVLER1B (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:27:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932475AbVLER1A (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:27:00 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:64740 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932468AbVLER07 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:26:59 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:26:51 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Mark Lord Cc: Lee Revell , Andi Kleen , Venkatesh Pallipadi , Andrew Morton , cpufreq , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo Message-ID: <20051205172651.GC12664@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Mark Lord , Lee Revell , Andi Kleen , Venkatesh Pallipadi , Andrew Morton , cpufreq , linux-kernel 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> <439463C4.7040905@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <439463C4.7040905@rtr.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 954 Lines: 26 On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:59:00AM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > >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. humans != programs > 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. Sure, 'cat' is the only reason its there at all. > Not useful as an accurate number for any programming algorithms, > but it is used to satisfy human curiosity. A lot. I think we're in agreement, aren't we? :) Dave - 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/