[MIPS] Make facility to convert CPU types to strings generally available.

So far /proc/cpuinfo has been the only user but human readable processor
name are more useful than that for proc.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-mips/cpu-info.h b/include/asm-mips/cpu-info.h
index 04689590eeed..94f1c8172360 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/cpu-info.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/cpu-info.h
@@ -74,4 +74,7 @@ extern struct cpuinfo_mips cpu_data[];
 extern void cpu_probe(void);
 extern void cpu_report(void);
 
+extern const char *__cpu_name[];
+#define cpu_name_string()       __cpu_name[smp_processor_id()]
+
 #endif /* __ASM_CPU_INFO_H */