From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 07:24:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA02974 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 07:24:36 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA02936 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 07:23:54 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA15234 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 16:23:21 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA10069 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 16:23:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA25301 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 10:56:25 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511020956.KAA25301@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 10:56:25 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511020027.QAA06442@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Nov 1, 95 04:27:05 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 718 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > > Should device drivers during boot time print messages of devices > not foun d ? > > Well, it is useful to see if one of your devices is not > found... and you're > not supposed to reboot that often (unless you > run -CURRENT that is). > I don't buy that since at boot time all drivers print a message to the > effect that the device was found and configuration information. I've been voting for hiding the ``not found'' messages behind the "bootverbose" (boot -v) case long ago, but nobody seems to agree. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)