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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:07:38 -0500
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Larry Kessler <kessler@us.ibm.com>, Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: [STATUS 2.5]  July 10, 2002
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> You need a bit more than that. You need a consistent way to report
> an IRQ number, a device name, a PCI object etc. That does mean tidying up
> printk but not in a bad way. One can imagine either
> 
> 	"%s", irq_name(irq)
> 
> or
> 	"%I", irq
> 
> type solutions

This would be nice. Ive been meaning to clean up the sparc64 irq
printing macros so I can use them on ppc64 (we have sparse irqs and
map them dynamically into the irq_desc array).

Same problem once we get PCI domains. So this cleanup will help more
than just event logging.

Anton
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