From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 17 13:12:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00828 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 13:12:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00820 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 13:12:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA16964; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:10:42 +0100 (CET) To: Karl Pielorz cc: jack , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heavy on the Verbosity (was) Re: Annoying messages on startup.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:01:05 GMT." <36A24F91.478B5387@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:10:42 +0100 Message-ID: <16962.916607442@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <36A24F91.478B5387@tdx.co.uk>, Karl Pielorz writes: >jack wrote: > >> Nowhere near as annoying as "tagged openings now xx". >> >> Perhaps `|| 1' could be changed to `|| crs->openings < some >> critical number' in cam_xpt.c. As it is now a boy and a wolf >> come to mind. > >Coming from someone who's spent the best part of last week trying to diagnose >various hardware & software problems on NT & Win'95 machines (to almost no >avail), I'd appreciate as much verbosity being left _in_ the kernel & FreeBSD >as possible... I'm fed up with seeing "Unknown error", or "Unknown errors >occured" or "Service Failed" and the like on competitor / other products... >Make them only 'if verbose' if you need to - just don't lose them >alltogether!... :) ... and add a magic key combination to turn on the verbose flag. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message