Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:14:20 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin), phk@freebsd.org (Poul-Henning Kamp) Subject: Re: ep driver Message-ID: <199602050914.KAA04348@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602050328.IAA23078@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Feb 5, 96 08:28:42 am
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As Serge A. Babkin wrote: > > > Could someone explain when a message like 'ep0: Status: 2002' > > occurs, that is what the status 2002 means for 3COM 3c5x9 means? > > It means "input buffer overflow". Then, why don't you write this? ;) Magic numbers instead of error messages are confusing. We once also decided to put the SCSI sense information messages into the kernel (though it's #ifdef'ed for those picky enough about space -- hey Poul, yet another thing to spare for your 4 MB kernel!). I don't think this has been a mistake, the messages proved invaluable when answering sever people's questions (including my own :). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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