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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Verbose babble in if_fddisubr.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:29:48 +0100."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:56:19 -0800
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>>The author of `bootverbose' told me that it was a general flag when I
>>objected to using it for controlling the slice messages.
>
>Is that's me you're referring to ?  :-)
>
>The idea was for it to be a flag that you could set so early that you
>could catch boot-related stuff (to which I consider the slice but 
>not the FDDI messages).  As soon as you have single user running
>you can tweak a sysctl variable, and things that can use that,
>should use that instead.
>
>So:  FDDI should have a sysctl:
>
>	net.fddi.verbose
>
>or similar, possibly two different ones...

   Actually, I think the message should be killed completely. I don't see how
it is useful in any case.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project