Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:34:56 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, abial@nask.pl, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys bus.h src/sys/kern subr_bus.c Message-ID: <19990120093456.L4646@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901191431260.64597-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 02:43:34PM -0500 References: <199901191901.UAA09951@ocean.campus.luth.se> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901191431260.64597-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Tuesday, 19 January 1999 at 14:43:34 -0500, John Fieber wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Mikael Karpberg wrote: > >> What's wrong with it? I mean, the exact format doesn't have to be exactly >> like that, but something along those lines, instead of screenfulls of >> useless messages every time you boot could really tidy the boot up, and >> look much nicer to newbies. Boot -v could print exactly what it does today. > > They are not useless, but they could be made easier to read and I > don't even think anything as revolutionary as a tabular format is > necessary. Each device comes with a "probe line" followed by > some other information. Even a subtle display change from this: > > da0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <FUJITSU M1606S-512 6226> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled > da0: 1041MB (2131992 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 132C) > da1 at ncr0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 > da1: <SEAGATE ST32155N 0594> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da1: 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled > da1: 2049MB (4197405 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261C) > cd0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > cd0: <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3501TA 2694> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device > cd0: 4.237MB/s transfers (4.237MHz, offset 8) > cd0: cd present [304767 x 2048 byte records] > > To this: > > da0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > <FUJITSU M1606S-512 6226> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled > 1041MB (2131992 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 132C) > da1 at ncr0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 > <SEAGATE ST32155N 0594> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled > 2049MB (4197405 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261C) > cd0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3501TA 2694> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device > 4.237MB/s transfers (4.237MHz, offset 8) > cd present [304767 x 2048 byte records] Agreed. I'd like to see something like that. Maybe less indent, though, in view of the length of some of these messages: da0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 <FUJITSU M1606S-512 6226> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled 1041MB (2131992 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 132C) da1 at ncr0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 <SEAGATE ST32155N 0594> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device 10.0MB/s transfers (10.0MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled 2049MB (4197405 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261C) cd0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3501TA 2694> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device 4.237MB/s transfers (4.237MHz, offset 8) cd present [304767 x 2048 byte records] Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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