Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Implement sysfs based cpuinfo for x86 cpus.

From	"Felix Schnizlein" <fschnizlein@suse.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Implement sysfs based cpuinfo for x86 cpus.
Date	2017-08-02 23:50 +0200
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>>> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 08/02/17 7:47 PM >>>
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 07:35:16PM +0200, Felix Schnizlein wrote:
>> Enable sysfs cpuinfo for x86 based cpus. Export often used cpu
>> information to sysfs. Stepping, cpu flags, cpu bugs, bogomips,
>> cpu family, vendor_id, model, and model_name are exported.
>> 
>> Sysfs documentation is updated to reflect changes.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Felix Schnizlein <fschnizlein@suse.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.com>
>> ---
>> 
>>  Changes since v1:
>>   - add missing documentation parts
>>   - fix wording in documentation description

> Note, your subject lines could use a bit better work.  How about:
>   cpuinfo: implement sysfs nodes for x86

True, I will update them accordingly when I repost the next time.
>
> That makes it easier to see/sort in my inbox.  Same for patch 1.
>
> Anyway, I'd really like to see this for another cpu arch at the same
> time, just to verify you really have the correct api/interface here.
> Can you do it for arm64 or something else as well?

Sure, I will look into what devices are available for me and implement
another arch.

Felix
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Implement sysfs based cpuinfo for x86 cpus. Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-08-02 19:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Implement sysfs based cpuinfo for x86 cpus. "Felix Schnizlein" <fschnizlein@suse.com> - 2017-08-02 23:50 +0200

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