In regards to the "excuse", the data ifconfig uses has changed, so if it
gets fixed "right" I don't see why we can't just do it.
About the differences in /proc/{modules,locks,pci} I don't see how you
could format then all the same. I mean modules has three columns first
and third are variable sizes, locks has 13 columns each followed by a 3
column row and pci, well, it doesn't begin to fit in any column/row scheme.
I would think similar data should have the same format, but
/proc/{modules,locks,pci} doesn't qualify in my book.
> Well regarding your /proc/cpuinfo format, I think we could fix this
> problem by just making sure that the very first line of the cpuinfo
> holds the port name.
>
> Something like:
>
> /proc/cpuinfo:
> port : {i386,alpha,sparc,ppc,mips}
I would defiantly disagree in this part. Putting arch instead of port
would be ok. I think technically speaking i386 isn't a port of linux,
because it started there.
> And then, if people want to parse any of the extra information, they
> should know the architecture specific information on the CPU before
> attempting to parse it.
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