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Date:   Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:47:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
To:     Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] RISC-V: Support case insensitive ISA string
 parsing.
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, Atish Patra wrote:

> As per riscv specification, ISA naming strings are
> case insensitive. However, currently only lower case
> strings are parsed during cpu procfs.
> 
> Support parsing of upper case letters as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>

Is there a use case that's driving this, or can we just say, "use 
lowercase letters" and leave it at that?


- Paul