On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 08:44:46PM +0100, Rüdiger Plüm wrote:
> On 12/1/20 4:02 PM, Yehuda Katz wrote:
> > Would a crazy option 4 be to add VENDOR_APLOGNO() which could add a prefix
> > to the log number to be used in any patches?
> >
> > For example, V_APLOGNO('R', 123) could produce AHR123
> >
> > This would make it clear that the error comes from a patch from another
> > distribution.
>
> Sounds like a good idea, as this would allow each vendor to manage its
> own number range independently from each other and us and it would be
> easy to spot such vendor specific error numbers in any kind of
> reports.
I dunno, this seems a bit over-engineering, upstream we'd have to
maintain somewhere a registry of the special vendor prefixes as well as
a new macro? I really just want to be able to use APLOGNO() as-is in
backports. If there's no appetite for allocating vendor ranges, we'll
just omit the APLOGNO() altogether in "vendor"ed log messages, it's not
really a big deal.
Regards, Joe
