[Buildroot] [Bug 6404] New: Buildroot's coreutils 'uname -p' reports 'Unknown' on recent ARM kernels

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 01/08/13 06:30, bugzilla at busybox.net wrote:
> Buildroot's coreutils uname(1) command has a special patch applied as part of
> buildroot.  When you run 'uname -p', it tries to print out extended information
> about the processor you are running.  It does this by parsing /proc/cpuinfo.
> I'm not sure of the provenance of this enhancement, but you can read the code
> in package/coreutils/coreutils-uname.patch.

  Seems to me that this patch should be dropped since it's a feature 
patch. Martin, you added it and Gustavo acked it in 2010. OK to drop it?

  Regards,
  Arnout
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