Re: Internationalizing Linux

Mirian Crzig Lennox (mirian@xensei.com)
08 Dec 1998 15:14:25 -0500

Tymm Twillman <tymm@coe.missouri.edu> writes:
> On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Bruce Korb wrote:
>
> > printk( KERN_ERR "some %s data %d format\n", str, val );
> >
> > is converted into:
> >
> > GRP_ERROR_EVT_GRP_212( str, val );
> >
>
> You're not putting all of the strings into one header file, are you?
> how much longer does it take to compile a kernel with your current setup?
> (I mean, sure it would get cached... but you still gotta parse)

As some one who is relatively new to Linux, and who has been reading a
lot of Linux kernel source code for the first time recently, I cringe
at what will happen to the readability of the kernel if this change is
made. Many (of not most) of the comments in the code seem to presume
that one can see those printk's; if they are moved out of the kernel
source proper, making sense of it will be made just that much more
difficult.

-- 
Mirian Crzig Lennox                                Systems Anarchist
          "There's a New World Order coming every minute.
                      Make mine extra cheese."


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