On 10 Dec 1998, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> You're forgetting that this is The Kernel. It needs to be able to run
> without a file system, and definitely without file system access at printk
> time.
No, not totally... the Amiga locale system actually requires a hard-coded
table of strings, for the case that the catalog files can't be found.
> hook a loadable module into printk, hash the English string (or just walk
> down the characters if you're lazy), find the translation in a table.
I'm not familiar to kernel programming ("hey, why is he on this list,
then?") but this is quite what I had in mind. Maybe with a hash table,
maybe with string ID numbers (simple array access instead of hashing,
though harder to maintain, I think).
Bye, Patrick
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