Re: [STATUS 2.5] July 10, 2002

From: Anton Blanchard (anton@samba.org)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 13:07:38 EST


 
> 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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