From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: "Joe Perches" <joe@perches.com>,
holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Dick Streefland" <dick.streefland@altium.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:18:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709242018.49321.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0709241337t545b3433mdc336055e2fb8330@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday 24 September 2007 3:37:55 pm Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On 9/24/07, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 18:43 +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > > Storing the format-string separately allows us to hash THAT instead of
> > > the formatted (ie. console output) message. Since this will never
> > > change from message to message, it can be looked up in a table or
> > > whatever and allow user-space to do translations without for example
> > > regular expressions.
> >
> > That hash will change with each linux version given the
> > inevitable spelling fixes, message reformatting and such.
>
> But we can keep the old ones too. That shouldn't be much of a problem.
> I mean, it probably wouldn't rely on a hash alone. The format string
> itself can be compared with the translation database.
I point out that the thread started with a comment about how to _reduce_
bloat.
Just sayin'.
Rob
--
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
- Ken Thompson.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-25 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-22 19:27 [RFC] New kernel-message logging API Vegard Nossum
2007-09-23 0:13 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-23 0:40 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-23 0:47 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-23 3:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-23 8:39 ` Vegard Nossum
2007-09-23 8:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-23 9:20 ` Vegard Nossum
2007-09-23 9:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-23 19:23 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-23 19:25 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-23 1:05 ` Miguel Ojeda
2007-09-25 5:27 ` Vegard Nossum
2007-09-25 17:24 ` Miguel Ojeda
2007-09-23 20:05 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-24 9:22 ` Michael Holzheu
2007-09-24 15:19 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-24 16:43 ` Vegard Nossum
2007-09-24 17:00 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-24 20:37 ` Vegard Nossum
2007-09-25 1:18 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2007-09-24 23:51 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-25 0:10 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-25 1:46 ` Rob Landley
2007-09-25 8:57 ` Michael Holzheu
2007-09-24 18:26 ` Jesse Barnes
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-25 4:58 linux
2007-09-25 6:54 ` Joe Perches
2007-09-25 7:50 ` linux
2007-09-25 8:06 ` Vegard Nossum
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