Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:42:54 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2 |
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 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.
Yes. I want the option of using those bits. It might not be smart to use them to encode a physical location and the irq number but just having the option would be nice.
Making /proc/interrupts useful without breaking user space is going to be an interesting challenge one of these days.
Eric
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