From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 1 16:27:37 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA03764 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 16:27:37 -0800 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA03759 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 16:27:27 -0800 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA06442; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 16:27:06 -0800 Message-Id: <199511020027.QAA06442@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: Ollivier Robert cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, vince@apollo.COSC.GOV, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Nov 1995 23:19:34 +0100." <199511012219.XAA18312@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 16:27:05 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> Ollivier Robert said: > It seems that Amancio Hasty Jr. said: > > Should device drivers during boot time print messages of devices not foun d ? > > Well, it is useful to see if one of your devices is not found... and you're > not supposed to reboot that often (unless you run -CURRENT that is). I don't buy that since at boot time all drivers print a message to the effect that the device was found and configuration information. The only question which is left unaswered is the kernel configuration information used to build the kernel which I think should be part of the kernel and a respective utility to dump the configuration information either that or an application to query the kernel to dump the configuration of the system akeen to the same information used to build the kernel. Sometimes, I have several kernel versions of the kernel and I forget how each one was configured :( Have fun, Amancio