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    SubjectRe: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages
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    On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:38 +0200, holzheu wrote:
    > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 11:41 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
    > > <snip>
    > >
    > > > Your proposal is similar to one I made to some Japanese developers
    > > > earlier this year. I was more modest, proposing that we
    > > >
    > > > - add an enhanced printk
    > > >
    > > > xxprintk(msgid, KERN_ERR "some text %d\n", some_number);
    > > Maybe a stupid idea but why do we want to assign these numbers by hand?
    > > I can imagine it could introduce collisions when merging tons of patches
    > > with new messages... Wouldn't it be better to compute say, 8-byte hash
    > > from the message and use it as it's identifier? We could do this
    > > automagically at compile time.
    >
    > Of course automatically generated message numbers would be great and
    > something like:
    >
    > hub.4a5bcd77: Detected some problem.

    Sorry, I first read: 8 characters not 8 bytes.

    Indeed, "hub.d41d8cd98f00b204: Detected some problem." ... does not look
    like very beautiful.

    But maybe also 4 bytes would be enough, since the hash only has to be
    unique within one component e.g. "hub".

    Michael

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