From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752273AbcGRKCw (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2016 06:02:52 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:54725 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752218AbcGRKCk (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2016 06:02:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:02:37 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Jon Masters , Jon Mason , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 0/1] ARM: print MHz in /proc/cpuinfo Message-ID: <20160718100236.GA12427@amd> References: <1465333713-14339-1-git-send-email-jon.mason@broadcom.com> <20160607221809.GP1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <32b30c50-4712-568e-4044-9f533ca497b2@jonmasters.org> <20160703165431.GL1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160703165431.GL1041@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun 2016-07-03 17:54:31, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 07:58:00PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > Agreed. But we'll still be coming back to ensure this information is > > presented to users. I pointed out to ARM about 3-4 years ago that this > > was going to bite us. It is now biting us, and we will ensure that > > useless data is provided where it is on x86 for identical experience by > > users. That is unless or until x86 users do something else always. Our > > (separate) case will use DMI or ACPI for the same kind of data. > > Right, so having read all your email, there's no reason why we couldn't > just print: > > cpu MHz : 99999999.999 You apparenly did not read the email. Because bogus number will not help people detecting underclocked configurations, as email was explaining. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html