Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/3] kmsg: Kernel message catalog macros. | | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:33:01 +1000 | |
On Thursday 31 July 2008 02:56:57 Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
> From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
>
> 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.
Rusty.
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