Subject: RE: Message codes (Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival)
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "Gross, Mark" <mark.gross@intel.com>
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:33:18 -0700
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On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 15:12 -0700, Gross, Mark wrote:
> Use compiler tricks to remove ALL the static printk string from
> the kernel and replace the printk with something that outputs a
> decimal index followed by tuples, of zero to N, hex-strings on

> I proposed a mechanism for keeping all the printk data and saving space
> buy doing some table based compressions that has the side effect of
> making the syslog not human readable.  You proposed a mechanism for
> no-oping out complete log-levels.   

How about compiler tricks to compress the static printk strings?
These could be expanded at runtime to use as the format.

Timothy Miller suggested something similar awhile ago.

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