linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix protection column misplacing in /proc/zoneinfo

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1206111350550.6389@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:52:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	cl@...ux.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix protection column misplacing in /proc/zoneinfo

On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> > We do, and I think it would be a shame to break anything parsing the way
> > that this file has been written for the past several years for something
> > as aesthetical as this.
> 
> How do you parsing?
> 
> Several years, some one added ZVC stat. therefore, hardcoded line
> number parsing never work anyway. And in the other hand, if you are
> parsing, field
> name, my patch doesn't break anything.
> 

Yeah, your patch doesn't break me because I'm parsing by field name but I 
feel it would be a shame for it to break anyone else that may not be doing 
it that way.  The set of users in the world who are parsing /proc/zoneinfo 
who may or may not do crazy things is not fully represented on this 
thread, so I don't feel it's worth it.
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