Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:57:15 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.1-pre1 breaks XFree 4.0.2 and "w" |
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:35:24AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Andreas argument was that earlier kernels weren't consistent, and as > such we shouldn't even bother to try to make newer kernels consistent. > We would be better off reporting our internal inconsistencies the way > earlier kernels did - the kernel would be confusing, but at least it > would be consistently confusing ;)
The earlier kernels were 98% consistent in providing the "cpu_has" information via /proc/cpuinfo that is true information too.
What I am suggesting is to fix the few places to make the /proc/cpuinfo 100% consistent reporting "cpu_has", and to provide the "can_I_use" information in another place (for example with /proc/osinfo or a new "osflags" row in /proc/cpuinfo).
This way we are 100% consistent and we don't lose the "cpu_has" information.
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