On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:20:22AM -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com> > Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:42:32 -0400 > > > So are we going to standardize these strings? > > No. > > > i.e what if some user has written a bash script that depends on this > > string and it gets changed later. > > They can't do that. > > It's free form extra information an application may or not provide > to the user when the kernel emits it.
I don't feel strongly about this and perhaps it can be revisited at some point but perhaps it would be worth documenting that he strings do not form part of the UAPI as my expectation would have been that they do f.e. to facilitate internationalisation.
