Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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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....

(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)


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