Re: [STATUS 2.5] July 10, 2002

[Anton Blanchard]

> 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