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From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] oprofile update: CPU type as string
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:42:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030211124214.GA63656@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302111234.h1BCYqgS004257@eeyore.valparaiso.cl>

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:34:52PM +0100, Horst von Brand wrote:

> Better use "ia32/P4" and so on, "i386/P4" makes little sense ;-)

It's modelled after linux/arch/<blah>

> You could (should?) place the CPU ID into the model spec too...

eh ?

> BTW, if nobody (except masochistic kernel source readers) sees this stuff,
> what is the point? An enum uses less space than a char * + the string.

The type is used by the userspace to determine what counters are
available.

john

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-11 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-11 11:32 [PATCH 1/4] oprofile update: Pentium IV support John Levon
2003-02-11 11:42 ` [PATCH 2/4] oprofile update: CPU type as string John Levon
2003-02-11 12:34   ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-11 12:42     ` John Levon [this message]
2003-02-11 11:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] oprofile update: fix oprofilefs integer files base John Levon
2003-02-11 11:45 ` [PATCH 4/4] oprofile update: kernel/user addresses fix John Levon

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