Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] ARM: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On Wednesday 30 January 2013 06:08 AM, Ruslan Bilovol wrote:
> The following patches update cpuinfo to print SoC
> model name for ARM.
> The first patch exactly makes needed changes for ARM
> architecture and adds a common approach to show SoC name.
> Second patch uses this approach for OMAP4 SoCs (as live
> example).
>
> Looks like there were few attempts to do similar
> changes to cpuinfo without any luck (had stuck
> on review) so this functionality is still not
> in the kernel yet.
> In this patch series the update to cpuinfo is very
> short (10 lines) and easy.
>
> Comments are welcome as usual
As most of the people already commented, your purpose
behind the series isn't clear so please give examples
where and why you need  device type information from
user-space.

Regards,
Santosh


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