From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 29 03:05:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA17185 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 03:05:38 -0700 Received: from vmbb.cts.com (vmbb.cts.com [192.188.72.18]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA17178 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 03:05:36 -0700 Received: from io.cts.com by vmbb.cts.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #9) id m0s59Oh-0001EPC; Sat, 29 Apr 95 03:05 PDT Received: (from root@localhost) by io.cts.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id DAA09272; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 03:04:21 -0700 From: Morgan Davis Message-Id: <199504291004.DAA09272@io.cts.com> Subject: Re: What I'd *really like* for 2.0.5 To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 03:04:21 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504290650.XAA08734@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Apr 28, 95 11:50:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 909 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.