Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 21:41:29 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile rr232x.4 src/sys/dev/rr232x LICENSE README amd64-elf.rr232x_lib.o.uu array.h him.h himfuncs.h hptintf.h i386-elf.rr232x_lib.o.uu ldm.h list.h os_bsd.c os_bsd.h osm.h osm_bsd.c rr232x_config.c ... Message-ID: <4456D4E9.5030607@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20060502033659.GA32417@gk.360sip.com> References: <200605010015.k410FDef095624@repoman.freebsd.org> <4456B86D.2080207@FreeBSD.org> <4456BC5A.2090308@samsco.org> <4456C049.2020805@errno.com> <4456C244.8020509@samsco.org> <4456C28C.502@errno.com> <4456C4C5.7030602@samsco.org> <20060502033659.GA32417@gk.360sip.com>
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Fair enough, I'll give this a try and see what happens. Scott Maxim Sobolev wrote: > IMHO it is misleading, since FreeBSD users get used to the fact > that the driver only announces itself if actual hardware is present > in the system. With number of supported devices in GENERIC growing > up dmesg will eventually turn into mess if each device driver will > announce itself unconditionally. > > At the very least, please put those printf's under if (bootverbose). > > -Maxim > > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:32:37PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > >>Sam Leffler wrote: >> >>>Scott Long wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Sam Leffler wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Scott Long wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>The architecture of the driver makes this a request hard to do. I >>>>>>don't like it, but there is precedence already with the ath driver. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>I'm guessing you're referring to ath bailing if the hal could not be >>>>>attached or the card otherwise setup? If so the card was actually >>>>>recognized and failure to complete the attach is totally separate. >>>>> >>>>>ath doesn't print anything during probe. >>>>> >>>>> Sam >>>> >>>> >>>>I thought that the ath hal printed a line early in boot with the >>>>version number. >>> >>> >>>The hal is a separate module. It prints it's version string on module >>>load. I can put it under bootverbose if desired but it's way useful to >>>tell people to send me: >>> >>>dmesg|grep ath >>> >>>and get the hal version and mac+phy revs for the hardware. >>> >>> Sam >> >>The same is basically true of rr232x, though there is no module >>separation of HAL vs OSM like with ath. >> >>Scott >>
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