RE: kernel support for non-english user messages

Giuliano Pochini
2003-04-09T13:00:15Z

On 09-Apr-2003 Frank Davis wrote:
> All,
>
> I wish to suggest a possible 2.6 or 2.7 feature (too late for 2.4.x and
> 2.5.x, I believe) that I believe would be helpful. Currently, printk
> messages are all in english, and I was wondering if printk could be
> modified to print out user messages that are in the default language of
> the machine. For example,
> printk(KERN_WARN "This driver is messed up!\n", getdefaultlanguage());

IMHO the "translation" should be performed at compile time. All those
languages would bloat the kernel image too much.

Bye.