From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 6 12:43:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA12626 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 12:43:03 -0800 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA12621 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 12:43:01 -0800 Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA17650 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 12:42:31 -0800 Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.140) with smtp id ; Mon, 6 Nov 95 21:42 MET Received: by sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de; id AA09266; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 21:42:22 +0100 From: Thomas Graichen Message-Id: <9511062042.AA09266@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 21:39:41 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199511051031.VAA32280@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 5, 95 09:31:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1469 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >> > I've been voting for hiding the ``not found'' messages behind the > >> > "bootverbose" (boot -v) case long ago, but nobody seems to agree. :) > >> > > >> > >> i agree with you - i think this should be the sense of a "-v" flag - normally > >> you should'ne see what's missing (if it is something impotant you'll see it if > >> something is'nt working :-) - but you shoud have a chance to look more careful > >> at all the device probes (using boot -v) > > >I'll go along with that. "Not found" also scares off people who don't > >realize that it's a normal state of affairs. > > It's only normal (and not good) for GENERIC and other bloated kernels. > but why not putting it behind an kernel option (VERBOSE or something like) - then everybody may do it like he likes it - with VERBOSE all probes (positiv and negative) are always displayed - without only positiv and the negatives only when booted using the "-v" option just'n idea - t _______________________________________________________||_____________________ __|| Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| ___________________________||____email: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de____