Re: [PATCH 3/10 -tip] x86: Add cpufeatures for Advanced Power Management

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu May 21 2009 - 02:16:38 EST


Andreas Herrmann wrote:
>
> What's the point of adding power managment flags twice?
> Most of it is already displayed in /proc/cpuinfo under
> "power management".
>

And that is user-space visible, so even if we unify the array (which may
be worthwhile) we cannot change the way they're presented to userspace.

-hpa

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