Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:34:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Cameron Grant <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it's time... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908111129380.14648-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <199908101820.MAA13330@harmony.village.org>
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On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> I'd be very careful of line wrapping probe messages. I have scripts
> that rely on them being on one line to get a list of irqs, etc.
I would consider information from the kernel probe/attach to be useful
only for humans.
An interface to query the resource manager directly is likely to be a
better solution to your problem.
Besides, if your perl skills aren't able to cope with getting all 'fooX:'
lines, and stripping out the 'fooX:' bits before parsing then you have
other problems.
> However, the whole issue of how probe messages should print, and how
> much is a religious war that I try to steer clear of...
Correct, but the nature of the kernel probe/attach messages is to convey
information in a readable, consistent, useful manner.
If we didn't want pretty line wrapping we'd all be using linux and have
stupid stuff like copyright messages as well. :)
At some point all of the boot messages should be wrapped by 'if
(bootverbose) { ... }' anyway.
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