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On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 03:21:58PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> For the Linux made up ones, a more descriptive name is better. Then
> there wont be confusion when people look at "IR" and can't find it
> online or in the document, and scratch their head thinking they are not
> smart enough to do kernel development and we lose another kernel
> developer ;-)

Like that ever happens... Kernel developers have thick heads, in most
cases thicker than processor manuals.

:-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.