Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:49:15 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 11:32 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > dev_printk() and friends are great, since they already define > something > > like KMSG_COMPONENT: The driver name. > > They provide way more than that, they also provide the explicit device > that is being discussed, as well as other things depending on the > device.
Instead of keeping a list of kernel message ids somewhere, can you base this off the dev_printk() format argument?
You could keep a list of those somewhere, extracted from the kernel source, and correlate documentation with the _format_ instead of an arbitrarily assigned message number.
-- Dave
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