On Monday 24 September 2007 3:37:55 pm Vegard Nossum wrote: > On 9/24/07, Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 18:43 +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote: > > > Storing the format-string separately allows us to hash THAT instead of > > > the formatted (ie. console output) message. Since this will never > > > change from message to message, it can be looked up in a table or > > > whatever and allow user-space to do translations without for example > > > regular expressions. > > > > That hash will change with each linux version given the > > inevitable spelling fixes, message reformatting and such. > > But we can keep the old ones too. That shouldn't be much of a problem. > I mean, it probably wouldn't rely on a hash alone. The format string > itself can be compared with the translation database.
I point out that the thread started with a comment about how to _reduce_ bloat. Just sayin'. Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
