From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 29 04:27:57 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA22187 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 04:27:57 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA22179 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 04:27:47 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id HAA13199; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 07:26:21 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199504291126.HAA13199@hda.com> Subject: Boot message rampage To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 07:26:21 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <11052.799132602@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 28, 95 10:16:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1351 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > All the probe messages irritate the hell out of me. The style is > inconsistent in many places and I still maintain that I do *NOT* want > to know about all the things it didn't find, I want to know about only > the things it did since the "fnob0: not found" messages just obscure > the messages I'm really looking for (or cause them to scroll off the > screen). Unfortunately, I seem to be in the minority here as a number > of other folks say that they like all that "extra diagnostic information." Boy do I agree with this. I have two 8 port serial cards in one of my kernels. > I say fiddlesticks, and it's time to make the -v flag earn its keep. > FreeBSD should either shut up entirely or spew loads of stuff at you > if you boot with -v. I agree. I propose we do provide something similar to the "write out the config" so that you can zap your kernel to support the boot flags you want. > Anyone of a mind to go on a little boot message reform rampage? Please don't go on a rampage yet. Produce a guidelines paragraph first and I'll at least be happy to try to change the SCSI type probe to match, or say why I don't think we should. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267