Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:30:56 +0530 | From | Santosh Shilimkar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] ARM: update cpuinfo to print SoC model name |
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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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