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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:41:28 +0200
From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages
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  <snip>

> 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
automagically at compile time. I know it also has it's problems - you
fix a spelling and the message gets a different id and you have to
update translation/documentation catalogue but maybe that could be
solved too...

								Honza
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