Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:35:22 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interrupt Descriptions Message-ID: <88388.1254378922@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:02:57 %2B1000." <20091001090218.L21015@delplex.bde.org>
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In message <20091001090218.L21015@delplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >Interrupt names should be no longer than 4 (5 works sometimes) characters so >that they can be displayed by systat -v. I disagree. Bytes are cheaper now than they were on a PDP11. We should use as many as is necessary to convey sensible information. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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