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Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> 
>>>     instr
>> I don't recall using that variable name - I believe you mean 'intr'
>> for interrupt that I used in place of 'irq'.
> 
> Please don't. If people are accustomed to irq, they will start wondering
> what intr is all about (or what the difference is, etc).
> 

Worse, on the x86 platform, people may very well assume that irq 0 = 
intr 32 etc.

	-hpa