From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761659AbXGJQvx (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:51:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754272AbXGJQvq (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:51:46 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:37020 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751687AbXGJQvp (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:51:45 -0400 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: [Lf_kernel_messages] Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:50:54 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, jack@suse.cz, kenistoj@us.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, pavel@ucw.cz, hpa@zytor.com, jengelh@computergmbh.de, sam@ravnborg.org, mtk-manpages@gmx.net, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, lf_kernel_messages@linux-foundation.org, tim.bird@am.sony.com, arjan@infradead.org, auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joe@perches.com, Andrew Morton , hansendc@us.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net References: <1181747217.29512.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200706251144.48658.rob@landley.net> <20070709181007.GA2343@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20070709181007.GA2343@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707101250.55494.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 09 July 2007 14:10:07 Theodore Tso wrote: > The idea that was tossed about was essentially printk hashes (hashed > on message plus filename, with optional reporting of filename+line > number), with the messaging catalog being maintained externally. Yes, > that will be a major pain for whoever wants to do the translation --- > but it puts the onus on the people who would be getting the value for > this to do the work. Sounds good to me. Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson.