From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 12 17:07:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA00161 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:07:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from usr05.primenet.com (tlambert@usr05.primenet.com [206.165.6.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA00153 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:07:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02182; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:07:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710130007.RAA02182@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: fnord0: disabled, not probed. To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:07:27 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hoek@hwcn.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <5276.876692189@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 12, 97 02:36:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Yes, but the boot messsage source is apparently the only one that's > > annoying enough to actually motivate anyone to actually change code. > > Depends on your definition, I guess. Annoying enough to change code > where "change code" = "do something significant about it?" No. > Annoying enough to change just enough code to shut it up? Yes, > sure, I agree. :-) So would the combined annoyance of its existance copuled with the annoyance of not shutting it up when it's possible to kludge it to shut it up be enought to put it over the "do something significant about it" threshold? How about combining both of those with discussions like this one? 8-) 8-) 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.