linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

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Message-Id: <1181760555.8735.17.camel@spirit>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:49:15 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <hansendc@...ibm.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	randy.dunlap@...cle.com, akpm@...l.org, mtk-manpages@....net,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 11:32 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > dev_printk() and friends are great, since they already define
> something
> > like KMSG_COMPONENT: The driver name.
> 
> They provide way more than that, they also provide the explicit device
> that is being discussed, as well as other things depending on the
> device. 

Instead of keeping a list of kernel message ids somewhere, can you base
this off the dev_printk() format argument?

You could keep a list of those somewhere, extracted from the kernel
source, and correlate documentation with the _format_ instead of an
arbitrarily assigned message number.

-- Dave

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