Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Andrey Panin wrote:
>
> > this small and self explaining patch, reduce kernel image
> > size (uncompressed) by several kiloBytes.
> >
> > It replaces some debugging messages spread around kernel image
> > ("wq bug, forcing oops", "kernel bug at %s" etc.) with
> > 4 string placed in messages.c file.
>
> 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...
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