Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2

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Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...>, Mike Travis <travis@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2

Date: Friday, August 1, 2008 - 11:28 pm

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
quoted text> 
> 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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[PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 5:37 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Aug 1, 4:46 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 10:58 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Mike Travis, (Fri Aug 1, 5:47 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 5:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Aug 1, 6:38 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 9:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Aug 1, 9:41 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Mike Travis, (Mon Aug 4, 8:57 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, H. Peter Anvin, (Mon Aug 4, 10:38 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Eric W. Biederman, (Mon Aug 4, 11:40 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, H. Peter Anvin, (Mon Aug 4, 11:48 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 10:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Aug 1, 10:03 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Aug 1, 10:39 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Aug 1, 11:28 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Eric W. Biederman, (Sat Aug 2, 12:42 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, H. Peter Anvin, (Sat Aug 2, 11:41 am)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Eric W. Biederman, (Sat Aug 2, 4:20 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Aug 1, 9:36 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 6:10 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 5:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2, Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Aug 1, 6:45 pm)

[PATCH 01/16] x86: 64bit support more than 256 irq, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 5:37 am)

[PATCH 02/16] x86: introduce nr_irqs for 64bit v3, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 5:37 am)

[PATCH 03/16] add dyn_array support, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 5:37 am)

[PATCH 04/16] make irq_timer_state to use dyn_array, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 5:37 am)

[PATCH 05/16] make irq2_iommu to use dyn_array, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 5:37 am)

[PATCH 06/16] make irq_desc to use dyn_array, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 5:37 am)

[PATCH 07/16] x86: make 64bit support dyn_array, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 5:37 am)

[PATCH 08/16] serial: change remove NR_IRQS in 8250.c v2, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 5:37 am)

[PATCH 09/16] add per_cpu_dyn_array support, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 5:37 am)

[PATCH 10/16] irq: make irqs in kernel stat use per_cpu_dyn_..., Yinghai Lu, (Fri Aug 1, 5:37 am)

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