Hi! > > Your proposal is similar to one I made to some Japanese developers > > earlier this year. I was more modest, proposing that we > > > > - add an enhanced printk > > > > xxprintk(msgid, KERN_ERR "some text %d\n", some_number); > Maybe a stupid idea but why do we want to assign these numbers by hand? > I can imagine it could introduce collisions when merging tons of patches > with new messages... Wouldn't it be better to compute say, 8-byte hash > from the message and use it as it's identifier? We could do this
Why hashes? Just key it off full message, and treat it like normal translation problem. 'lp%d: on fire' -> 'your printer failed basic tests, you should check cabling'. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
