Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: kernel support for non-English user messages | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:32:04 +0100 (BST) |
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> The road to hell is paved with good intentions. This is one of those "good > intentions" things - it sounds like it's a nice helper thing, but it's > nothing but a load of maintenance headaches and causes horrible printout > headaches.
The best option might be simply to document things like error messages in more detail, (and translate that documentation into as many languages as possible).
For example, when the IDE code started outputting debug info for a feature that wasn't implemented on a lot of older drives, (around 2.4.20), there were _loads_ of posts asking what the error meant, and whether it was something to worry about - a simple
printk ("This is not a critical error");
would have saved a lot of time :-), (note, this isn't a criticism of the IDE maintainers - it's not practical, or helpful to make _every_ error message verbose, but if it had been documented somewhere, it would have been useful).
I suggest we introduce a 'grepme' file in the top level of the kernel source distribution which, as the name suggests, is the first place to look for whatever-you-were-going-to-post-to-LKML-about. I volunteer to maintain such a 'grepme' file if you'll aprove the idea, Linus?
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