> >Big strings mean big kernels. Not too good. The kernel doesn't
> >know, and *** must not know *** about 'dev/sda1'.
>
> Too late, I'm afraid.
>
> The de facto standard names are already known to the kernel (cf:
> init/main.c::name_to_kdev_t(), just for an example)
Ack. Nasty. Any chance of killing it?
Seems what we really need to do is to emit messages in a standard format
that syslogd can interpret and expand (even translate?), so long as it is
done properly (unlike the oops symbol expansion stuff, though I gather that
has been fixed now). I don't know how we deal with boot up messages, though.
What do other Unices do?
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