From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL/RESEND] kernel message catalog patches
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:35:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081027163518.50b6ddfb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810270906520.3386@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
> Which is why I think for something like this, it really needs to be
> entirely outside. Because putting it inside the kernel simply isn't going
> to result in anything really useful. Either it can be close to the message
> and be updated reasonably (never mind that if we really do support
> multiple languages, that's not going to happen anyway, even if it's
> close), or it's going to be somewhere else and not be updated when changes
> happen - and then it migth as well be a separate project.
Small bits of it have to be inside the kernel
- Markup (_("Hello") To extract the strings)
- To format the data in a way that can be recovered by ksyslogd and
translated.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-27 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-16 14:50 [GIT PULL] " Martin Schwidefsky
2008-10-17 7:59 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-10-21 9:21 ` [GIT PULL/RESEND] " Heiko Carstens
2008-10-23 15:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-23 21:04 ` Heiko Carstens
2008-10-23 21:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-24 15:50 ` Heiko Carstens
2008-10-26 19:26 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-10-26 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-27 10:01 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-10-27 15:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-27 15:52 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-10-27 16:19 ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-27 16:27 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-10-28 8:25 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-10-27 16:03 ` Alan Cox
2008-10-27 16:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-27 16:35 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-10-27 19:36 ` Theodore Tso
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