Re: [PATCH 00/16] dyn_array and nr_irqs support v2

[H. Peter Anvin]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Having a human readable name like: eth0irq22 or hbairq5 is likely just
> as good in the case of msi.  Still all of the users interfaces today take numbers.
> So we are stuck with dealing with numbers for a long time to come.

Long sparse numbers are messy, too, though.  It might be interesting to 
have a routine somewhere like "irq_name()" to output a human-readable 
IRQ name, which in case of MSI-X could contain the PCI device name.

	-hpa
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