RE: [patch] kernel events layer

Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2004-07-26T06:04:50Z

> From: Chris Wedgwood
>
> This part worries me a lot. I would alsmost rather all possible
> messages get stuck somewhere common so driver writes can't add these
> ad-hoc and we can avoid a proliferation of either similar or pointless
> messages.
>
> Forcing these into a common place lets people eyeball if a new
> messages really is necessary --- and it makes writing applications to
> deal with these things easier (since you don't have to scan the entire
> kernel tree).

That sounds to me like the perfect job for grep. In fact, it is _very_
similar to the job the GNU guys did on the early days of i18n. They
had the tool that extracted all the strings in _("xlate me")
[#define _(a) a ] and built a catalog.

If you guys are up to it, I volunteer to write/port such a tool to scan
out the send_kevent{_atomic,}()s and make a catalog out of it.

Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own (and my fault)