<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. I know it also has it's problems - you fix a spelling and the message gets a different id and you have to update translation/documentation catalogue but maybe that could be solved too...
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