I'm not fond of inventing a new 3-character abbreviation field for every state because display tools can't handle the existing 16-character name field. 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? If that is not unique, then re-arrange the strings so that it is unique... Of course the ACPI part of this patch will not apply, as it depends on patch 1 in this series, which was erroneous. For ACPI, the existing name field is already fine, as C%d fits into 3 characters. thanks, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html