From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 22 05:10:23 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257D7AA; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 05:10:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427BD8FC0C; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 05:10:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.55]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id qAM4iQkg061200 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:14:32 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Increasing the DMESG buffer.... Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_4D80BBCB-E168-45F2-B2C5-824558AA9E76"; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <20121122144400.M21191@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:14:18 +1030 Message-Id: References: <50ACA59D.3080809@digiware.nl> <20121121101411.GG4535@server.rulingia.com> <50ACD522.7000706@digiware.nl> <50ACEE5B.8000901@FreeBSD.org> <50ACF891.4050105@digiware.nl> <1353513692.69940.7.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <50ACFC6C.8070506@FreeBSD.org> <20121122040251.G21191@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <50AD0E82.3070706@digiware.nl> <20121121194142.8c4bf7d1977f13801a021ccc@getmail.no> <20121122144400.M21191@sola.nimnet.asn.au> To: Ian Smith X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-Spam-Score: -3.051 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: Adrian Chadd , Ronald Klop , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon , Lars Engels X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 05:10:23 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_4D80BBCB-E168-45F2-B2C5-824558AA9E76 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 22/11/2012, at 14:46, Ian Smith wrote: > Dumping all nodes and channels is incredibly useful for folks needing = to=20 > rewire something to get various jacks working and such, but I'd argue = is=20 > way overkill for a 'normal' verbose boot. See acpi(4) for examples of=20= > selectively logging ACPI_DEBUG components with = debug.acpi.{layer,level}=20 > and be very glad all of that doesn't appear in every verbose boot .. Wouldn't it be better to expose that stuff via a sysctl directly (ie the = sysctl holds the actual data)> -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --Apple-Mail=_4D80BBCB-E168-45F2-B2C5-824558AA9E76--