linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove CPU cache size output for non-Intel too

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Message-ID: <20091113225214.GA21609@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:52:14 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove CPU cache size output for non-Intel too

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 02:38:26PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
 > As Dave Jones said about the output in intel_cacheinfo.c: "They aren't
 > useful, and pollute the dmesg output a lot (especially on machines with
 > many cores).  Also the same information can be trivially found out from
 > userspace."  Give the generic display_cacheinfo() function the same
 > treatment.
 > 
 > Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com>

Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>


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