[PATCH v2] ARM: remove name from machine_desc for DT platforms

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 02:16:29AM +0900, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If this is a required feature then we should make machine_desc common
> > (or at least part of it) with the other arches that have copied arm and
> > then add it to arm64 as well. Then I could do further consolidation of
> > the FDT machine matching code. Otherwise this is all just pointless
> > architecture variation that really has nothing to do with the architecture.
> 
> I think you are missing my point. go ahead, take it out of
> /proc/cpuinfo. That's not the issue.

You do realise this is a user API issue, right?

http://fossies.org/dox/glibc-2.18/ports_2sysdeps_2unix_2sysv_2linux_2arm_2ioperm_8c_source.html

Right, it only has four strings which it matches against, but this is
evidence that /proc/cpuinfo is a user API, and the strings therein are
used by userspace in ways you don't expect.

We can't just go around removing things.