On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > 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. > Ok, so a specialized version of printk will do the work to calculate > the hash. Only, what will we do if there ever is a conflict? The message > tag has to be unique. The shorter the hash is, the more likely a > collision gets. Don't know if 6 hash digits is enough to just ignore the > problem. And if you ever need to change the text that is in the format string? The hash changes. That seems exactly counter to your goal... Tim -- 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
