Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 03:04:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Morgan Davis <root@io.cts.com> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What I'd *really like* for 2.0.5 Message-ID: <199504291004.DAA09272@io.cts.com> In-Reply-To: <199504290650.XAA08734@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Apr 28, 95 11:50:47 pm
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Rodney W. Grimes writes: > > The ``not found'' messages issue was debated and decided shortly after it > was implemented. The major reason for keeping it around is that you > know the kernel looked for the device, you know at what address it tried > to find it, and you know that the probe returned 0 for some reason. This > has always helped with debugging peoples problems with misconfigured > systems. It also acts as a big reminder you have cruft in your kernel > that you should probably remove from it. Why not provide a kernel config option (option VERBOSE_BOOT?) that allows the user to determine if the -v option should be implied upon boot as a default. Then those who don't want all the status stuff can turn it off by commenting out the option for the default mode (but still enabled it with -v at the boot prompt). Those who want to see everything as it has always been simply do nothing.
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