[PATCHv4 5/5] arm64: cpuinfo: print info for all CPUs

[Peter Maydell]

On 18 July 2014 16:58, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 04:52:37PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Comments in the kernel sources aren't going to guide
>> anybody except kernel developers.
>
> That's not entirely true, some people skim the kernel sources to figure
> out how they're meant to use syscalls and such (though admitedly this
> isn't all that common).

Every time anybody has to do that it means you've failed to document
something...

>> I was expecting from this commit message that you were going to emit
>> actual comments in /proc/cpuinfo...
>
> I don't think that's a good idea, and I can only see that reading when I
> squint quite hard. ;)

You have to admit it would put the documentation right where
the people looking at cpuinfo can find it :-)

How about a patch to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt ?

thanks
-- PMM