Re: [PATCH] mm: fix protection column misplacing in /proc/zoneinfo

From: David Rientjes
Date: Mon Jun 11 2012 - 16:37:49 EST


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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