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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:37:43 +0100
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
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Subject: Re: [OT] /proc/cpuinfo output from some arch
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:47:18AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > What about /proc/sys/cpu/<number>/<datapoint> ?
> 
> What happens if the cpus are hot plugged and change ID while doing the
> config 8)

As far as SMP systems and cpufreq is concerned, we're going to have
a /proc/sys/cpu/all/ as well - you can't control the clock rate of
each cpu independently on such systems (otherwise they wouldn't be
very symetric.)

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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