Re: Jive -> Kernel (International Linux)

Adam D. Bradley (bradley@cs.unca.edu)
Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:53:01 -0500 (EST)

> We've had modules, user processes, kernel loading predetermined files with
> the relivent strings, ....
>
> Why not just make it simple, and have a config option that appends a
> '-D<lang>' to the cflags, and then have the printk's like this:
>
> printk(KERN_DEBUG,
> #ifdef LANG1
> "Message that %s said %d in lang 1\n"
> #else /* not in LANG1 */
> #ifdef LANG2
> "Message that %s said %d in lang 2\n"
> else /* not in LANG2 */
> "Message that %s said %d in english\n"
> #endif /* LANG2 */
> #endif /* LANG1 */
> , device->name, status);
>
> That way if the printk hasn't been translated to the perticular
> language yet, the english is used, it dosn't use memory for each
> additional language, and you also don't have all that messing
> with loading, and searching through, lists of translations.

This is probably the simplest approach...it does make every occurrence of
printk() a little ugly, however ;-). A similar alternative (that I
presented at first) is to do the same thing, but define symbolic names for
the strings in a separate file (one in each directory, for example):

#define STRING_FLOPPY_SCREWED "Your floppy is screwed!"
etc...

And use "printk(KERN_DEBUG STRING_FLOPPY_SCREWED);" instead. It would be
easier to consolidate per-language stuff here, rather than going through
every file and fiddling with the whoel #ifdef logic. Just $0.02.

Adam

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