Removed some distribution-specific patches
By chys on March 24th, 2010With all due respect to Gentoo developers, I really hate the patches they made for coreutils, especially the one to have uname parse /proc/cpuinfo.
The result is that uname -a displays more info, specifically the mode of the CPU, on Gentoo than other Linux distributions. Generally this is not a bad thing. But I do have concerns:
(1) In my view the utility uname should remain a simple wrapper of the homonym system call. If CPU/vendor info really needs to be returned by uname, it is better to add it to kernel. This is also part of the reason why upstream rejected this patch.
(2) If I am used to finding CPU info from uname, I will likely forget the more orthodox method (cat /proc/cpuinfo). A job interviewer may not be that patient to listen to my explanation about the patch.
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