Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:40:35 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, gregkh@suse.de,
       mtk-manpages@gmx.net, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com,
       "lf_kernel_messages@linux-foundation.org" 
	<lf_kernel_messages@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages
Message-ID: <20070615124034.GH9442@ucw.cz>
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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'.

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