On Friday 15 August 2008 03:07:03 Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 14:33 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > On Thursday 31 July 2008 02:56:57 Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > > From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > 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. > > First, how do you do that with the C preprocessor? Second the kmsg-doc > script will check that the message format strings match if a kmsg with a > specific id is used in multiple locations. Well, why would you do it with the preprocessor? It's simplest to spit it out at runtime. The (offline) catalogger will need to generate them, of course. Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
