linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] RISC-V: Support case insensitive ISA string parsing.

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.9999.1907261346560.26670@viisi.sifive.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:47:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
To:     Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Kao <alankao@...estech.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>,
        Anup Patel <anup.patel@....com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] RISC-V: Support case insensitive ISA string
 parsing.

On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, Atish Patra wrote:

> As per riscv specification, ISA naming strings are
> case insensitive. However, currently only lower case
> strings are parsed during cpu procfs.
> 
> Support parsing of upper case letters as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>

Is there a use case that's driving this, or can we just say, "use 
lowercase letters" and leave it at that?


- Paul