> file named dialects.h:
> ---------------------------
> #ifdef LANGUAGE_ENGLISH
> #define HELLO "Good day to you, fine sir."
> #define BYE "Toodle pip!"
> #define PANIC "Gosh! This is most unusual, don't you know?"
> #endif
>
> #ifdef LANGUAGE_JIVE
> #define HELLO "'Sup, dude?"
> #define BYE "Laters, honcho"
> #define PANIC "De kernel be bugger'd"
> #define BROKEN_DISK "Dis disk be goin' t'boogie"
> #endif
>
> #ifndef HELLO
> #define HELLO "Generic greeting"
> #endif
>
> #ifndef BYE
> #define BYE "Generic dismissal"
> #endif
>
> #ifndef PANIC
> #define PANIC "Kernel Panic!"
> #endif
>
> #ifndef BROKEN_DISK
> #define BROKEN_DISK "This disk is broken"
> #endif
> ---------------------------
I think the point made earlier about unmanagability of the source is quite
valid. This would be more workable if the standard kernel distribution
came with the final #ifndef..#define bits, but the section for each
separate language was downloadable separately. I still think that messages
for each driver/section of the code should be kept separately, in order to
make it all a bit easier to keep track of. Perhaps one (set of) text
file(s) for each sub-directory of the kernel source tree?
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