linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/10 -tip] x86: Add cpufeatures for Advanced Power Management

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Message-ID: <4A14F15C.2050503@kernel.org>
Date:	Wed, 20 May 2009 23:14:52 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
To:	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
CC:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/10 -tip] x86: Add cpufeatures for Advanced Power	Management

Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> 
> What's the point of adding power managment flags twice?
> Most of it is already displayed in /proc/cpuinfo under
> "power management".
> 

And that is user-space visible, so even if we unify the array (which may
be worthwhile) we cannot change the way they're presented to userspace.

	-hpa

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