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FromRusty Russell <>
SubjectRe: [patch 1/3] kmsg: Kernel message catalog macros.
DateWed, 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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