linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: cpu/proc.c adding extended_cpuid

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Message-Id: <20090512232122.61f2d7c5.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 12 May 2009 23:21:22 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: cpu/proc.c adding extended_cpuid_level for
 /proc/cpuinfo

On Tue, 12 May 2009 12:44:42 +0530 Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> wrote:

> +		   "ext cpuid level\t: 0x%x\n"

It's unobvious what "ext" means.  External?

Can we make it "extended cpuid level"?

One would hope that google(extended cpuid level) tells you what an
extended cpuid level is, but alas, unclear.

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