danielfsantos@xxxxxxx wrote:
Typically, we don't care about error messages or names in the kernel becauseI like the idea generally - and have occasionally entertained the idea of
userspace will manage that. But sometimes we need to output an error number
to printks and that creates a situation where a user, system admistrator or
developer must find an error number reference to figure out what went wrong
with a particular driver or whatever. This patch adds two alternatives at
increasing memory costs:
1. print the number in addition to the name for 2k extra or
2. print the number, name and description for 6k extra.
implementing it myself. However, I wouldn't bother with the "human readable"
description if we're going to do this. Generally, the symbolic representation
is good enough - and that's what you're going to grep the code for anyway.
David