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On 1 Oct 2009, at 01:02, Bruce Evans wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, John Baldwin wrote:
>
>> A few folks have asked recently for the ability to add descriptive  
>> strings to
>> registered interrupt handlers.  This is especially true since the  
>> advent of
>> MSI with multiple interrupts per device.  I hacked up a prototype  
>> today that
>
> Interrupt names should be no longer than 4 (5 works sometimes)  
> characters so
> that they can be displayed by systat -v.

We should just change systat, IMHO, but I know it's not easy.

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Rui Paulo