Re: [PATCH] mm: fix protection column misplacing in /proc/zoneinfo

From: David Rientjes
Date: Mon Jun 11 2012 - 16:52:51 EST


On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> > We do, and I think it would be a shame to break anything parsing the way
> > that this file has been written for the past several years for something
> > as aesthetical as this.
>
> How do you parsing?
>
> Several years, some one added ZVC stat. therefore, hardcoded line
> number parsing never work anyway. And in the other hand, if you are
> parsing, field
> name, my patch doesn't break anything.
>

Yeah, your patch doesn't break me because I'm parsing by field name but I
feel it would be a shame for it to break anyone else that may not be doing
it that way. The set of users in the world who are parsing /proc/zoneinfo
who may or may not do crazy things is not fully represented on this
thread, so I don't feel it's worth it.
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