From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 14 13:06:41 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA01769 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:06:41 -0800 Received: from tfs.com (mailhub.tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA01761 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 1995 13:06:40 -0800 Received: by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) Message-Id: From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: SCSI ASC-ASCQ descriptions To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 12:02:33 -0800 (PST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503141145.GAA06400@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Mar 14, 95 06:45:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 752 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > J Wunsch writes: > > > > I rather thought of an LKM to interpret the ASC's. Syslogd could > > load it... :-) At least, the strings are no longer _static_ then. nice idea, but we need it earlier then that, as Peter says... > > I tried it this morning. It adds 4982 bytes of kernel bloat > to put all the "additional sense code"/"additional sense > code qualifier" descriptions in the kernel. I wonder if compression would help in any way? there are lots of words that are common.... e.g. "ready, audio, logical, unit, required, progress, error, not " I'm really tempted to make a program to do this... :) (and print it) > > Shall I commit this? yes, I would, but it might be good top make an option to leave it out.. (a SMALL option?) >