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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:56:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
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To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] cpuidle: Introduce .abbr (abbrevation) for cpuidle
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I'm not fond of inventing a new 3-character abbreviation field
for every state because display tools can't handle the existing
16-character name field.

If the display tools can only handle 3 characters,
then why not have them simply use the 1st 3 characters
of the existing name field?  If that is not unique,
then re-arrange the strings so that it is unique...

Of course the ACPI part of this patch will not apply,
as it depends on patch 1 in this series, which was erroneous.
For ACPI, the existing name field is already fine,
as C%d fits into 3 characters.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center