[RFC PATCH 23/35] Increase x86 interrupt vector range

Keir Fraser
Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:02:19 -0000

On 13 May 2006, at 18:44, Chuck Ebbert wrote:

> AFAIC this could go in anytime.  It's simple, self-contained and makes
> sense even without Xen.
>
> One minor nit: the IRQ value isn't negated, it's complemented.  The
> comments need to be fixed.

If we really want it disambiguated then we should call it something
like 'bitwise-negated' or 'ones-complemented'.
'Complemented' alone is
worse than 'negated' imo, since negation is at least the usual name for
the tilde operator in C while complementation is an ambiguous term
unless you know the base/radix.

  -- Keir