[PATCH v6] arm64: cpuinfo: Expose MIDR_EL1 and REVIDR_EL1 to sysfs

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Jun 28 07:17:55 PDT 2016


On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:06:22PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:12:36PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > +static struct attribute_group cpuregs_attr_group = {
> > +	.attrs = cpuregs_attrs,
> > +	.name = "identification"
> > +};
> 
> This makes sense because MIDR/REVIDR belong to the "Identification"
> functional group of registers, however I wonder if we should put this
> under a directory called "regs" or similar, so that we don't have a
> confusing top-level directory where "identification" lives alongside
> things like "hotplug" and "cpuidle".

IMO, there are too many subdirectories and I don't think we would expose
any other registers than the ID ones.

-- 
Catalin



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