linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] RISC-V: Remove unsupported isa string info print

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.9999.1910180118510.21875@viisi.sifive.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Oct 2019 01:19:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
To:     Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        Enrico Weigelt <info@...ux.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Richard Fontana <rfontana@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2  1/2] RISC-V: Remove unsupported isa string info
 print

On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, Atish Patra wrote:

> /proc/cpuinfo should just print all the isa string as an information
> instead of determining what is supported or not. ELF hwcap can be
> used by the userspace to figure out that.
> 
> Simplify the isa string printing by removing the unsupported isa string
> print and all related code.
> 
> The relevant discussion can be found at
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-riscv/2019-September/006702.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Thanks, queued for v5.5-rc1.


- Paul