Re: [PATCH] MIPS: kernel: proc: Remove spurious white space in cpuinfo

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Fri Oct 20 2017 - 16:49:12 EST


On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:

> Remove unnecessary space from FPU info segment of /proc/cpuinfo.

NAK. As I recall back in Nov 2001 I placed the extra space there to
visually separate the CPU part from the FPU part, e.g.:

cpu model : R3000A V3.0 FPU V4.0
cpu model : SiByte SB1 V0.2 FPU V0.2

etc. And the motivation behind it still stands. Please remember that
/proc/cpuinfo is there for live humans to parse and grouping all these
pieces together would make it harder. Which means your change adds no
value I'm afraid.

NB regrettably back in those days much of the patch traffic happened off
any mailing list, however I have quickly tracked down my archival copy of
the original submission of the change introducing this piece of code and
I'll be happy to share it with anyone upon request.

Maciej