Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755655AbYHQR14 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:27:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752589AbYHQR1r (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:27:47 -0400 Received: from mtagate4.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.153]:42473 "EHLO mtagate4.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751986AbYHQR1p (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:27:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] kmsg: Kernel message catalog macros. From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com To: Joe Perches Cc: Greg KH , Kay Sievers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, lf_kernel_messages@lists.linux-foundation.org, Andrew Morton , Michael Holzheu , Gerrit Huizenga , Randy Dunlap , Jan Kara , Pavel Machek , Sam Ravnborg , Jochen =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vo=DF?= , Kunai Takashi , Tim Bird In-Reply-To: <1218915375.24527.105.camel@localhost> References: <20080730165656.118280544@de.ibm.com> <20080730171156.824640459@de.ibm.com> <3ae72650807301502h3e54e80yb405af7192048b89@mail.gmail.com> <20080730220432.GA24800@suse.de> <1217495404.8555.20.camel@localhost> <20080805223117.GA6552@suse.de> <1218011716.20769.12.camel@localhost> <20080806200721.GA30086@suse.de> <1218097901.1033.10.camel@localhost> <1218124771.5882.37.camel@localhost> <1218326902.14983.22.camel@localhost> <1218915375.24527.105.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM Corporation Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:27:39 +0200 Message-Id: <1218994059.20098.4.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 821 Lines: 23 On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 12:36 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > Doesn't this example better illustrate the barely useful > user value of such a message and documentation? > > In your example, monwriter.1 with a return code of 5 isn't possible. That is true, thanks for pointing out this bug. I doesn't change anything about the need for a message documentation though, it only proves that the documentation can have errors. At least the customers running linux on System z want to have the documentation. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. -- 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/