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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:30:14 +0200
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To: Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@...ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] kmsg: Kernel message catalog macros.
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 17:28 +0200, Utz Bacher wrote:
> Martin Schwidefsky wrote on 25.08.2008 17:56:30:
> > If we go with hashes there is one more thing: kmsg(0, <string>)
> > The variant where we manually assign the message ids knows about the
> > "special" id 0. There is no documentation required for id 0 and none is
> > wanted. If we replace the manual ids with hashes this will get lost. You
> > could argue that a kmsg with id 0 is a normal printk so why not just use
> > printk? What is lost is the information that this printk has been found
> > to be not important enough to be documented.
>
> what about a kmsg(<string>) and a kmsg_not_for_doc(<string>) with only kmsg
> being hashed and used for man pages. There might be better names for these
> functions, though.
That would double the number of macros we'd have to define. Not really
something I would like to do. Only if there is no other way ..
--
blue skies,
Martin.
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
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