Re: [PATCH V2 4/4] MIPS: Loongson: Make CPU names more clear

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On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 02:08:02PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:

> Make names in /proc/cpuinfo more human-readable, Since GCC support the
> new-style names for a long time, this may not break -march=native any
> more.

I do understand why you want to make this change - but things in proc
including CPU names are interfaces and those are cast in stone.  You
can't just call a potatoe a cherry today :-)

Unless you have a good reason which would include demonstrating that is
not breaking any existing application code?

  Ralf




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