Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750914AbVL3D4g (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:56:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750929AbVL3D4g (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:56:36 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:56529 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750886AbVL3D4g (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:56:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:56:07 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Mark Lord Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com Subject: Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers Message-ID: <20051230035607.GD20371@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Mark Lord , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com References: <1135798495.2935.29.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051228212313.GA4388@elte.hu> <20051228214845.GA7859@elte.hu> <20051228201150.b6cfca14.akpm@osdl.org> <20051229073259.GA20177@elte.hu> <20051229202852.GE12056@redhat.com> <43B4ADD0.4040906@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43B4ADD0.4040906@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: 916 Lines: 22 On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:47:28PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > >If we change some /proc file thing, breakage is often totally > >unintentional, and complaining is the right thing - people might not even > >have realized it broke. > > Okay, I'm complaining: /proc/cpuinfo is no longer correct > for my Pentium-M notebook, as ov 2.6.15-rc7. Now it reports > a cpu speed of approx 800Mhz for a 2.0Mhz Pentium-M. It's reporting the 'current running speed'. You have speedstep-centrino loaded, (and probably a governor changing the speed down when idle). I don't see how this can be construed as breakage btw. Which application breaks due to this changing ? 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/