Re: Standardized /proc/cpuinfo patch

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
2 Sep 1999 01:10:11 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909011506590.13578-200000@z.glue.umd.edu>
By author: Vince Weaver <weave@eng.umd.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> This adds to the beginning of /proc/cpuinfo the following fields
>
> number_of_cpus
> cpu_arch
> cpu_type
> cpu_vendor
> cpu_MHz
> cpu_bogomips
>
> Because the above tokens are all new, old parsing routines should not
> break.
>
> After the above will follow a new-line, then the original /proc/cpuinfo.
>

One big problem is that people tend to not follow existing
conventions. For example, for parsing reasons, it was stated that
/proc/cpuinfo should not have spaces in the keywords (because space is
a separator.) Someone broke that, majorly.

-hpa

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