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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:04:11 -0700 From: "Tim Hockin" <thockin@...kin.org> To: "Rusty Russell" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> Cc: "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, lf_kernel_messages@...ts.linux-foundation.org, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Michael Holzheu" <holzheu@...ibm.com>, "Gerrit Huizenga" <gh@...ibm.com>, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...e.de>, "Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, "Jan Kara" <jack@...e.cz>, "Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>, "Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>, "Joe Perches" <joe@...ches.com>, "Jochen Voß" <jochen.voss@...glemail.com>, "Kunai Takashi" <kunai@...ux-foundation.jp>, "Tim Bird" <tim.bird@...sony.com> Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] kmsg: Kernel message catalog macros. But there are a number of places that have different strings for the same meaning: "Can't" vs "can't" vs "can not" vs "failed to", etc. This is a big part of what hurts us - you end up with lots of loose regexes when parsing logs. Tim On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote: > On Thursday 31 July 2008 02:56:57 Martin Schwidefsky wrote: >> From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ibm.com> >> From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com> >> >> Introduce a new family of printk macros which prefixes each kmsg message >> with a component name and allows to tag the printk with a message id. > > Can you hash the format string to generate the id? 6 hex digits should be > enough, and your tool can check for clashes. As it's bad form to have > identical strings for different semantics anyway, this seems to make sense. > > Rusty. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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