Why not? If it's keyed off the device driver name, everyone can
maintain their own pool of identifiers (like, say, FT001->FT999
for the mythical Promise FastTrak ["We don't support Linux" was
the huffy reply I got. That's okay, for I know what the Windows
driver interface looks like.] driver.) And then write their own
little identifier->message array.
>We have enough
>trouble with device numbering...
A deep voice intones "DEVFS"
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david parsons \bi/ Personally, I'd like to see a lkm for internationalization
\/ of kernel messages, rather like the codepage stuff that's
been introduced in recent kernels.
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