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Message-ID: <20170308123417.GA3981@kroah.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 13:34:17 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Vignesh R <vigneshr@...com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: 8250_core: Use dev_name() during
request_irq()
On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 05:49:43PM +0530, Vignesh R wrote:
> Passing "serial" as name during request_irq() results in all serial port
> irqs have same name. This does not help much to easily identify which
> irq belongs to which serial port instance. Therefore pass dev_name()
> during request_irq() so that better identifiable name is listed for
> serial ports in cat /proc/interrupts output.
>
> Output of cat /proc/interrupts
> Before this patch:
> 26: 689 0 GICv2 309 Edge serial
> After this patch:
> 26: 696 0 GICv2 309 Edge 2530c00.serial
>
> Signed-off-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@...com>
I need a "full" name here, unless you really do sign legal documents
with just one letter as a last/sur-name?
thanks,
greg k-h
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