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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] x86: fix confusing name of /proc/cpuinfo "ht" flag
On 11/12/2009 12:13 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> /proc/cpuinfo is a user-space visible ABI. Changing it is bad
>> chicken.
>
> Almost ... something is only an ABI if an actual application relies on
> the 'ht' flag being there on non-hyperthreading CPUs. We dont know
> whether there's any, but the likelyhood looks pretty low. Could park it
> a branch for some time to see whether anything trips up.
>

No, please. We have had people who have "helpfully" tried to change
/proc/cpuinfo in the past, and what we find is that application
developers don't tell us -- they grumble among themselves and put out a
new release saying "fixes breakage introduced by Linux ..."

It's an ABI. Keep it stable, please.

-hpa

--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.



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