Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:56:45 -0500 (EST) | From | Len Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/9] cpuidle: Introduce .abbr (abbrevation) for cpuidle states |
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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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