From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 08:01:03 -0700 > On 12/15/2015 08:13 PM, David Miller wrote: >> From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:25:42 -0700 >> >>> adi is the externally visible name for this feature and that is how it >>> is referenced in the docs. Firmware encodes it as "adp" for its >>> internal use and that is how it shows up in hwcap-list property. So >>> this code translates it from firmware internal name to the external >>> name which would make sense to someone looking at /proc/cpuinfo. >> >> I totally disagree with changing the string. >> >> If the firmware provides X that's what we should publish in the >> cap list. It doesn't really matter what the docs say. >> >> Otherwise we have this rediculous set of translations whenever >> something like this pops up again, and that kind of crud tends >> to accumulate. >> > > It is a marketing/copyright thing, but I agree with you :) Let me > check with marketing if they are ok with not doing the translation. You marketing team doesn't get to decide what string we end up publishing to the user for this feature. So if you don't do something reasonable, I will. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
