Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:28:45 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: /proc/cpuinfo: Use DT machine name when possible |
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On Thu 2014-06-19 00:10:39, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:22:29PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > > So without this patch DT migration for Nokia N900 cannot be done > > without breaking userspace - which is not acceptable... > > I guess the fact is that the Nokia N900 proprietary userspace has > never worked properly with the mainline kernel without severe patching, > so you cannot really talk about any regression. If you cannot fix > those programs, you could still probably emulate the old Nokia kernel's > /proc/cpuinfo by providing some text file and bind mounting it, no?
Actually, yes, it worked pretty well with some close-to-mainline kernels.
And bind-mount on /proc/cpuinfo is beyond ugly, don't you think? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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