linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] cpuinfo: implement cpuinfo in sysfs

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Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:29:06 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Felix Schnizlein <fschnizlein@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        yanmin.zhang@...el.com, mingo@...hat.com, trenn@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] cpuinfo: implement cpuinfo in sysfs

On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 07:37:23PM +0200, Felix Schnizlein wrote:
> Make data from current /proc/cpuinfo available in sysfs.
> 
> Some parts of /proc/cpuinfo are already accessible through sysfs like
> microcode, topology and cache info.
> Now migrate the rest of worthful cpuinfo data.
> 
> While ACPI, cpufreq and most of /proc/cpuinfo data has already been migrated
> to sysfs, this is another step in transitioning from proc to sysfs.
> 
> This patch series provides the architecture independent interface in
> drivers/base/cpuinfo.c and the x86 and arm64 implementations 
> in 3 separate patches.
> 
> More architectures can now be added easily by looking at the x86 patch.

Nice job, thanks for sticking with this, now applied.

greg k-h