On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Exactly - PMUs enumerated in /sys should be self-identifying, it's a > hardware topology after all ... > > Anytime userspace is forced to look into /proc, or into weird places in > /sys it's a FAIL really.
well on x86 you have to look at /proc/cpuinfo to get the vendor/family/model number. Should we add some specifier under sys? It's probably too late though as all userspace event libs will have to look at /proc/cpuinfo anyway to be backwards compatible. Vince -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
