Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:44:15 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Panic, root fs.. |
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On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 11:03:40AM -0700, david parsons wrote:
> >Big strings mean big kernels. Not too good. The kernel doesn't > >know, and *** must not know *** about 'dev/sda1'. > > Too late, I'm afraid. > > The de facto standard names are already known to the kernel (cf: > init/main.c::name_to_kdev_t(), just for an example)
Ack. Nasty. Any chance of killing it?
Seems what we really need to do is to emit messages in a standard format that syslogd can interpret and expand (even translate?), so long as it is done properly (unlike the oops symbol expansion stuff, though I gather that has been fixed now). I don't know how we deal with boot up messages, though. What do other Unices do?
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