linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API

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Message-Id: <1190653250.2010.2.camel@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:00:50 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc:	holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Dick Streefland <dick.streefland@...ium.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 18:43 +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> Storing the format-string separately allows us to hash THAT instead of
> the formatted (ie. console output) message. Since this will never
> change from message to message, it can be looked up in a table or
> whatever and allow user-space to do translations without for example
> regular expressions.

That hash will change with each linux version given the
inevitable spelling fixes, message reformatting and such.

> I will follow up with some code to demonstrate as soon as I can.

Looking forward to it.

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