RE: kernel support for non-english user messages

[Chuck Ebbert]

>>      How about changing the way printk works, so that instead of
>> combining the format string, it just "prints" its args:
>> 
>> printk("%s: name %p is %d\n", name, ptr, val);
>> 
>> results in the following in the kernel buffer:
>> 
>> "%s: name %p is %d\n", "stringval", 0x4790243, 44
>
> Debugging a non-klogd enabled kernel would be a pain

 Why?  Shouldn't it be easy to fix dmesg so it unmangles the output?

 The real problem I see is that this approach doesn't make it any
easier to translate the messages.

  Maybe someone should just try to write a Babelfish-like thing that
takes English kernel-speak and translates it as best it can?  It would
at least be amusing to read the output. :)

--
 Chuck
 I am not a number!