Re: Weird spelling fixes in 2.1.107

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
26 Jun 1998 03:29:33 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980625180502.18814B-100000@blues.jpj.net>
By author: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > - "cpu family\t: %c\n"
> > + "CPU family\t: %c\n"
> >
> > The worst one -- this breaks interface between the kernel and apps.
>
> The /proc/cpuinfo file is normally read by humans. I think applications
> which use it should be adapted to what is best suited for humans.
>

This is total CRAP, sorry. It was bad enough that some dork removed
the underscores, making automated parsing *MUCH* harder, now this...

-hpa

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