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

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Message-Id: <1182172374.28566.1.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:12:54 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Gerrit Huizenga <gh@...ibm.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, randy.dunlap@...cle.com,
	gregkh@...e.de, mtk-manpages@....net, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com,
	"lf_kernel_messages@...ux-foundation.org" 
	<lf_kernel_messages@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:55 +0200, holzheu wrote:
> Hi Gerrit,
> 
> The common thing of your and our approach is, that we need an ID to
> identify a message either by:


Maybe I am missing something big, but why is an ID needed?
The message IS the ID right? That's the only thing that is robust
against code moving about....

(And yes I am aware that very occasionally there might be a duplicate
message that REALLY is different, but I suspect that that is so
incredibly rare that it's just simpler to reword one of the two in such
case)


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