From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 14:48:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA05278 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 14:48:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpp.minn.net (root@mpp.Minn.Net [204.157.201.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA05263 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 14:48:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.minn.net (8.7.3/8.6.9) id QAA26941; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 16:47:45 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199603042247.QAA26941@mpp.minn.net> Subject: Re: kernel messages.... To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 16:47:45 -0600 (CST) From: "Mike Pritchard" Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu, nate@sri.MT.net, jlwest@tseinc.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199603041934.MAA21175@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Mar 4, 96 12:34:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Nate Williams wrote: > Garrett A. Wollman writes: > > < said: > > > > > Is there anyway we could re-word this or even remove it if it's > > > informational only. > > > > I don't want to remove it, because it indicates that some > > configuration needs to be at least thought about. > > And that configuration would be? How is this going to help a user of > the system vs. the developer? A developer can add this log message to > his system, while a user is only confused by it which causes more > questions for the developer, thus the developer gets less work done. :) How about only printing it if the DIAGNOSTIC option is enabled? That seems pretty reasonable considering the message is put into the system log with LOG_DEBUG, which indicates to me that it isn't really intended for joe user. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"