Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752731AbYJ0Qf6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:35:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750866AbYJ0Qfs (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:35:48 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:57223 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750786AbYJ0Qfs (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:35:48 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:35:18 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL/RESEND] kernel message catalog patches Message-ID: <20081027163518.50b6ddfb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <1224168620.9617.14.camel@localhost> <1224230354.4631.1.camel@localhost> <20081021092148.GB4980@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20081023210446.GA12003@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <1225049195.14057.72.camel@localhost> <1225101688.15777.6.camel@localhost> <20081027160359.37db885c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.12; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 928 Lines: 19 > Which is why I think for something like this, it really needs to be > entirely outside. Because putting it inside the kernel simply isn't going > to result in anything really useful. Either it can be close to the message > and be updated reasonably (never mind that if we really do support > multiple languages, that's not going to happen anyway, even if it's > close), or it's going to be somewhere else and not be updated when changes > happen - and then it migth as well be a separate project. Small bits of it have to be inside the kernel - Markup (_("Hello") To extract the strings) - To format the data in a way that can be recovered by ksyslogd and translated. Alan -- 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/