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> If the error message has three parameters, I'd write
>
> printf( msg[code], p1, p2, p3, p2, p1, p2, p3 );
>
> and so on. I'm definitely not proud of this gross hack.
>
Umm, right. Why not just add support for positional parameters to
the kernel vsprintf()? Then all you have to do is change the format
string, which can specify the appropriate parameters; "%4$s" would refer
to the 4th string, for instance.
An example of this is in Ulrich Drepper's paper on "Internationalization
in the GNU Project" from 1996:
http://i44www.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/~drepper/conf96/paper-7.html#ss7.1
The reason he states that it can't be used in GNU packages
(portability--not all OSes support it) doesn't seem to apply to the Linux
kernel, as it provides its own vsprintf (upon which printk is based).
Brad
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