Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 21:40:03 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: "Fafa Hafiz Krantz" <fteg@london.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: A beautiful dmesg! Maybe one day? Message-ID: <20050507214003.7cac15a0@vixen42.local.lan> In-Reply-To: <20050506192022.A45F64BEAE@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050506192022.A45F64BEAE@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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On Fri, 06 May 2005 14:20:22 -0500 "Fafa Hafiz Krantz" <fteg@london.com> wrote: > > Hello Mr. Nelson and Mr. Losh! > > > It's easy enough to change the format string in > > subr_bus.c:device_print_prettyname() to pad out the devicename. > > I am not qualified to do this. I wish I were. > How about you guys? :) > > > However, you may prefer to just put up a splash screen (see the > > splash manpage), so the user doesn't even see the kernel messages > > at all. > > We can't just forget about it and pray for it to go away. > > This is an aesthetic violation to FreeBSD's professional image, > that is considered to be more important now than ever. > > Now that we have logo and website design competitions going to > completely revamp of the FreeBSD of the 70s, perhaps it's also time > to update the ASCII design of this system? I personally find the old methode a lot easier to read, compared to the new one. If a change is wanted, why not make such a thing like this a kernel option? > > Many of his suggestions are subtle changes to the probe messages > > in addition to the format string. > > > > Warner > > Indeed they are subtle. > But it's more like removing zits. With laser or whatever.
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