Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 11:52:35 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user-space resource information... Message-ID: <200011041952.eA4JqZF11774@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Nov 2000 20:20:49 %2B0100." <3248.973365649@critter>
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> In message <200011041916.eA4JGsF11659@mass.osd.bsdi.com>, Mike Smith writes:
> >> > Comments? Here's some sample output; the leading index numbers are
> >>
> >> Just 2: why are the irqs displayed in hex?
> >
> >See the following comment regarding "formatting conventions". There's no
> >easy way for the program to know that they're IRQs (and IMO it shouldn't),
> >so no way to know that they are conventionally formatted in ascii. Not
> >sure what to do in the SMP case either, where the "IRQ" is really just a
> >vector handle.
>
> If the largest number in the class is < 100, print decimal, otherwise
> hex.
Mmm. That's not a bad ballpark heuristic, although I'm still leaning
towards presenting it with the rman.
> I'm wondering if this should have its own program, rather than squat
> in on iostat ?
Adding yet another program for such a trivial fragment of code seems
kinda silly. If/when someone uses the other interfaces as well to get
the full device tree extracted, that probably belongs elsewhere, but
right now iostat is as good a place as any for this I think.
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