On Wednesday 13 August 2008 17:04:11 Tim Hockin wrote:
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> But there are a number of places that have different strings for the
> same meaning: "Can't" vs "can't" vs "can not" vs "failed to", etc.
>
> This is a big part of what hurts us - you end up with lots of loose
> regexes when parsing logs.

Well, if they're to be the same messages under the manual-numbering scheme, 
someone has to verify that they are really the same anyway.  Not much more 
work to simply fix them in that case, is it?

If it improves normal kernel messages, then everyone wins.
Rusty.
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