Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: kernel support for non-english user messages | Date | Wed, 9 Apr 2003 11:33:40 +0200 |
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Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2003 10:08 schrieb Matti Aarnio: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:02:16AM -0400, Frank Davis wrote: > > All, > > > > I wish to suggest a possible 2.6 or 2.7 feature (too late for 2.4.x and > > 2.5.x, I believe) that I believe would be helpful. Currently, printk > > messages are all in english, and I was wondering if printk could be > > modified to print out user messages that are in the default language of > > the machine. For example, > > To propagate the idea further, why not have proper message catalogs, > > and that way translations. Instead of: > > printk(KERN_WARN "This driver is messed up!\n"); > > There would be: > printk(KERN_WARN "1234-6789 this driver is messed up!\n") > > In the old days of big iron beasts, there used to be multivolume > binders full of system messages, and their explanations. > Searching went thru those "1234-5678" strings. > > There were sets of those manuals in a number of customer languages.
If we do this, why not go the whole way? Could we compute a hash value for every message that's not KERN_CRIT, use it to create a table of messages and hashes and replace the messages in the kernel image with the hash values leaving expansion to klogd?
Regards Oliver
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