Interrupt Descriptions

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Oct 1 06:35:20 UTC 2009


In message <20091001090218.L21015 at 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.

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