Re: [patch 1/3] kmsg: Kernel message catalog macros.

[Rusty Russell]

On Tuesday 26 August 2008 01:56:30 Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:33 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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.

Hmm, #define KERN_IGNORE KERN_DEBUG?

Rusty.
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