linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu: sort cpuinfo flags

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Message-ID: <20181221130403.GD1325@zn.tnic>
Date:   Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:04:03 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Jia Zhang <qianyue.zj@...baba-inc.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu: sort cpuinfo flags

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 03:40:37PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> But I don't see an improvement in readability of data presented to user as
> a silly idea.

Improving readability is not a silly idea and I never said that. Rather,
the cost of what you're trying to accomplish, needs to be weighed.

The final goal of this is, AFAIU, finding whether a feature flag is
there or not and you can use grep for that now, on *any* kernel.

And if you need the feature flags sorted, you can do that too:

$ grep -m 1 flags /proc/cpuinfo | tr " " "\n" | sort | xargs

and there probably is even a simpler way to do that.

Or add a shell alias for that or a small script or ...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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