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Message-ID: <4893D459.4030209@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:28:25 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Having a human readable name like: eth0irq22 or hbairq5 is likely just
> as good in the case of msi. Still all of the users interfaces today take numbers.
> So we are stuck with dealing with numbers for a long time to come.
>
Long sparse numbers are messy, too, though. It might be interesting to
have a routine somewhere like "irq_name()" to output a human-readable
IRQ name, which in case of MSI-X could contain the PCI device name.
-hpa
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