Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:03:51 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing/enhancing kernel printf() Message-ID: <22304.1190491431@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:46:13 MST." <C75B4E27-E2BA-43CF-AFB6-C8104AAA6C72@mac.com>
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In message <C75B4E27-E2BA-43CF-AFB6-C8104AAA6C72@mac.com>, Marcel Moolenaar wri tes: >Agreed. We should not lump them together. However, they are >interrelated, so we cannot treat them independently either. >The switchboard approach was a way to 1) untangle the low- >level console from /dev/console and 2) allow everything to >be interconnected in some form of shape without backchannels >and/or hooks. I'm deeply sceptical, but if you think you know how to do it, in a way that still works in a panic context, by all means try it out. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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