From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 22 17:59:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A33BD37B405 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:58:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.141.241.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.141.241] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16TCgN-0006X5-00; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:58:40 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0N1ueU83514; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:56:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:56:31 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Greg Black Cc: Brian Reichert , "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" , Brooks Davis , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cpu info in userland Message-ID: <20020122175631.A83184@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20020122113351.A25927@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20020122155202.J2872@numachi.com> <3C4DD39B.2050906@rambo.simx.org> <20020122161406.L2872@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from gjb@gbch.net on Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:41:24AM +1000 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:41:24AM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > Brian Reichert wrote: > > | I've seen situations where 'dmesg' (and by extension dmesg.boot) > | will contain multiple passes of device probes, etc. I could easily > | be imagining this, as I can't think of a mechanism to allow for > | it, nor a reason to do it... > > You're not imagining it -- certainly 4.4-RELEASE does this. If you drop to single-user and go back to multi-user, dmesg.boot gets written again in rc(8). I have patched rc(8) to only write dmesg.boot at boot. I should look again at committing that. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message