Bug 88627

Summary:	KInfoCenter should improve Interrupts view
Product:	[Applications] kinfocenter	Reporter:	Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri>
Component:	Info	Assignee:	David Hubner <hubn3rd>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	hubn3rd, sitter
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri 2004-09-01 19:54:54 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.0)
OS:                Linux

some kinfocenter modules/views are good, but some are really bad.

One module that should be improved is Interrupts.

It's only the /proc/interrupts dump, it should be parsed and displayed in a more human readable form.

This is just a matter of make it a tree based on processor number and put each field in it's own table cell.

Comment 1 Helge Deller 2004-09-03 20:37:33 UTC

Agreed - the Interrupts info should be enhanced.

But you can't just rewrite the code/parser of the /proc/interrupts dump, because Linux and KDE runs on many different platforms which have a different layout of the /proc/interrupts file.

Instead with Linux 2.6 we should use the libsysfs library instead and get all needed information that way.
http://linux-diag.sourceforge.net/Sysfsutils.html

Comment 2 Harald Sitter 2021-07-09 08:30:55 UTC

Given the edge case use of the interrupts module we'll not be spending time on implementing and maintaining column parsing.