Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:37:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
cc: cl@linux.com, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix protection column misplacing in /proc/zoneinfo
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> > You are not worried about breaking something that may scan the zoneinfo
> > output with this change? Its been this way for 6 years and its likely that
> > tools expect the current layout.
> 
> I don't worry about this. Because of, /proc/zoneinfo is cray machine unfrinedly
> format and afaik no application uses it.
> 

We do, and I think it would be a shame to break anything parsing the way 
that this file has been written for the past several years for something 
as aesthetical as this.
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