Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> wrote:
>>> How about changing the way printk works, so that instead of
>>> combining the format string, it just "prints" its args:
>>>
>>> printk("%s: name %p is %d\n", name, ptr, val);
>>>
>>> results in the following in the kernel buffer:
>>>
>>> "%s: name %p is %d\n", "stringval", 0x4790243, 44
[...]
> The real problem I see is that this approach doesn't make it any
>easier to translate the messages.
If you habe the above, you could use/copy/reuse gettext() since the
format string is used a key/hash/unique id for the translation.
Bernd
-- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@gams.at g.a.m.s gmbh Fax : +43 1 205255-900 Prinz-Eugen-Straße 8 A-1040 Vienna/Austria/Europe LUGA : http://www.luga.at- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Apr 15 2003 - 22:00:21 EST