[PATCH] ARM: Prefix revision number in /proc/cpuinfo

[Daniel Mack]

Hi Russell,

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:52:01PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:58:07PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > The revision field in /proc/cpuinfo is reported as hex number, so it
> > should have a '0x' prefix to make that clear. Otherwise, parsers
> > will take it as decimal number unless it contains a letter.
> 
> So what you're doing is possibly breaking existing parsers (which
> probably already assume it is hex) to fix buggy parsers?

I wouldn't call that fixing a buggy parser. On my board, the revision is
0x101 which was parsed as 101. You can't know it is in hex unless you
look at the sources.

Daniel