Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755289AbYGaKYR (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:24:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751158AbYGaKYA (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:24:00 -0400 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:43013 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751043AbYGaKX7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:23:59 -0400 From: "Takashi Nishiie" To: "'Martin Schwidefsky'" , , , Cc: "'Andrew Morton'" , "'Michael Holzheu'" , "'Gerrit Huizenga'" , "'Greg Kroah-Hartman'" , "'Randy Dunlap'" , "'Jan Kara'" , "'Pavel Machek'" , "'Sam Ravnborg'" , "'Joe Perches'" , "=?iso-8859-1?Q?'Jochen_Vo=DF'?=" , "'Kunai Takashi'" , "'Tim Bird'" References: <20080730165656.118280544@de.ibm.com> <20080730171157.170172806@de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20080730171157.170172806@de.ibm.com> Subject: RE: [patch 2/3] kmsg: Kernel message catalog script. Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:23:56 +0900 Message-ID: <007c01c8f2f7$89f55620$9de00260$@css.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AcjyaB0rhrKhYXfCRuOuHbYnFAFUNAAjq7Bw Content-Language: ja Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1978 Lines: 54 > > /*? > * Tag: . > * Text: "" > * Severity: > * Parameter: > * @1: > * @2: > * ... > * Description: > * > * User action: > * */ > > The script looks for a kmsg comment for a kmsg printk at three places, > the source file where the kmsg call is located, in the architecture > dependent file Documentation/kmsg/$ARCH/ and in the common > file Documentation/kmsg/. > > The kmsg check is invoked with "make D=1" and reads the source files > for all objects that are built by the current configuration and > searches for matching kmsg descriptions for the kmsg messages in the > source which have a messages id > 0. If a message description can not > be found the script prints a blueprint and causes a make error. > > The kmsg man page creation is invoked with "make D=2" and reads the > source files for all built objects, looks up the message description > and writes a man page to $(objtree)/man. I think it is good to number the message. It might be gospel for providing with the support service for the corporation. However, there is a problem of the scale in numbering of not only a specific module but also all modules to the message. (There might be at least 34000 relating messages or more. ) It introduces the following Web sites as a approach that arranges the message on a Japanese Web site though it apologizes. OSS Message Pedia http://ossmpedia.org/ (Attention: This Web site is being written in Japanese. ) Thanks -- NISHIIE Takashi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/