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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:42:32 -0400

> So are we going to standardize these strings?

No.

> i.e what if some user has written a bash script that depends on this
> string and it gets changed later.

They can't do that.

It's free form extra information an application may or not provide
to the user when the kernel emits it.