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

From: Martin Schwidefsky
Date: Thu Aug 14 2008 - 13:08:13 EST


On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:33 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thursday 31 July 2008 02:56:57 Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Introduce a new family of printk macros which prefixes each kmsg message
> > with a component name and allows to tag the printk with a message id.
>
> 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.

First, how do you do that with the C preprocessor? Second the kmsg-doc
script will check that the message format strings match if a kmsg with a
specific id is used in multiple locations.

--
blue skies,
Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


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