linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/9] cpuidle: Introduce .abbr (abbrevation) for cpuidle states

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Message-id: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1101120150570.19140@x980>
Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:56:45 -0500 (EST)
From:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
To:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com, j-pihet@...com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] cpuidle: Introduce .abbr (abbrevation) for cpuidle
 states

I'm not fond of inventing a new 3-character abbreviation field
for every state because display tools can't handle the existing
16-character name field.

If the display tools can only handle 3 characters,
then why not have them simply use the 1st 3 characters
of the existing name field?  If that is not unique,
then re-arrange the strings so that it is unique...

Of course the ACPI part of this patch will not apply,
as it depends on patch 1 in this series, which was erroneous.
For ACPI, the existing name field is already fine,
as C%d fits into 3 characters.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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