Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:47:28PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
 > >If we change some /proc file thing, breakage is often totally
 > >unintentional, and complaining is the right thing - people might not even
 > >have realized it broke.
 > 
 > Okay, I'm complaining:  /proc/cpuinfo is no longer correct
 > for my Pentium-M notebook, as ov 2.6.15-rc7.  Now it reports
 > a cpu speed of approx 800Mhz for a 2.0Mhz Pentium-M.

It's reporting the 'current running speed'. You have speedstep-centrino
loaded, (and probably a governor changing the speed down when idle).

I don't see how this can be construed as breakage btw.
Which application breaks due to this changing ?

		Dave

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