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SubjectRe: [PATCH] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo
 >I can't think of a single valid reason why a program would want
>to know the MHz rating of a CPU.

Humans like to know what their machines are doing.

Simple as that: it's for the end-users, and the place they look
for it is always /proc/cpuinfo (since that works on every platform
and on kernels prior to the 2.[56].* series.

Not useful as an accurate number for any programming algorithms,
but it is used to satisfy human curiosity. A lot.

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