Re: [PATCH] Debugging messages compacting

From: Andrey Panin (pazke@orbita.don.sitek.net)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 03:45:12 EST


Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > DEBUG_WAITQUEUE will be turned off (and the code complication will be
> > removed) in 2.4. Some of the BUG()s will be / should be removed as well,
> > but sharing the 'BUG' printk message makes sense otherwise. Wouldnt it be
> > better to put that single string definition into kernel/printk.c instead
> > of a completely new file?
>
> If we are putting messages into a file, please do it in such a way that
> internationalization teams can easily replace the messages with
> localized ones...

Agreed.
Putiing debuging messages into separate file makes easier to
change (add, delete etc.) these messages IMHO.

Best wishes,
                Andrey

P.S. If we think about kernel internationalization (hmm ... is it necessary ?),
may be we must think about common (kernel wide) message-string store ?
(just a stupid idea :))

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