On Mon 18-06-07 06:12:54, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:55 +0200, holzheu wrote: > > Hi Gerrit, > > > > The common thing of your and our approach is, that we need an ID to > > identify a message either by: > > > Maybe I am missing something big, but why is an ID needed? > The message IS the ID right? That's the only thing that is robust > against code moving about.... I think the problem is messages contain device numbers, and all similar kind of data. So what you'd really like is to use >format string< as ID. But that is not easily accessible for the user, so you'd have to print it with each message. And that's ... ugly IMHO.
> (And yes I am aware that very occasionally there might be a duplicate > message that REALLY is different, but I suspect that that is so > incredibly rare that it's just simpler to reword one of the two in such > case) Honza -- Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SuSE CR Labs - 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/