On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 10:21, Riley Williams wrote:
> 1. If the printk() messages are internationalised, we are going to
> see log extracts posted here in various languages, including some
> that the relevant maintainers don't understand. To stand any
> realistic chance of dealing with the resultant bug reports, we
> need to include the message code in the report so we can just
> feed the various reports through a tool that translates them into
> our preferred language.
Providing the viewer is translating the originals always exist. Indeed
you can do
LANG=es view-logs
LANG=ru view-logs
...
You can have sysadmins with no common language("not a recommended
configuration" ;))
You are right about needing to log parameters, but given a log line
of the form
%s: went up in flames\n\0eth0\0\0
that can be handled by the log viewer
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