Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Standardized /proc/cpuinfo patch | Date | 2 Sep 1999 01:10:11 GMT |
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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.
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