Re: [PATCH 4/9] cpuidle: Introduce .abbr (abbrevation) for cpuidle states

On Wednesday 12 January 2011 23:25:12 Len Brown wrote:

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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?

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You mean use:
C3 NHM
instead of
NHM-C3
for intel_idle?

Yes.
is there a reason that would be a problem?

A much more elegant solution came to my mind:
I'll rewrite the perf timechart patch to do:
Title:   C-stateName1 [1] , C-stateName2 [2]
and later I will refer to the states by 1, 2, ...
Eventually a:
Description:
[1] C-stateDescription1
[2] C-stateDescription2
...
can be put somewhere as well.

Please ignore this patch.

Stupid that I didn't think of that in the first place.

Thanks,

   Thomas