Re: /proc/cpuinfo verbiage differ unnecessarily between ports...

Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
01 Sep 1999 00:12:30 +0200


>>>>> "Ronald" == Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> writes:

Ronald> I can't think of any good argument for keeping "processor" for
Ronald> the i386 and "cpu" for the sparc64. Someone should probably
Ronald> fix all the different ports so that the verbiage is
Ronald> consistent...

Since none of the info in /proc/cpuinfo should be of interest to any
tools it should be fairly irrelevant. It's been different since the
first days of the /proc filesystem and never caused problems before.

Jes

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