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Date:      Fri, 21 May 2021 22:28:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org>, Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Reducing SIGINFO verbosity
Message-ID:  <202105220528.14M5S8nh015727@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfoJPB=-WMqH_Hd5ggGmY4GR2L7RJZpa_e9a2_ym5R4ZZA@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 7:38 AM Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 03:57:17PM -0700, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> > > No, I don?t think there?s any reason to default it differently on stable
> > vs
> > > current. I think it?s useful (and I prefer the more verbose form, which
> > > isn?t the default).
> >
> > I agree that there's no reason for the default to be different, but I
> > would say that it is much easier for someone who knows that there is a
> > default to be changed to change it, than it is for someone who does not.
> > Therefore, if the information is not useful to someone who does not know
> > how to get rid of it, then it should default to not being displayed,
> > IMHO.
> >
> 
> I plan on changing the default for non-INVARIANT kernels back to
> the old behavior.
> 
> INVARIANT kernels will keep this behavior because it's a debugging
> kernel and this is one more thing to help debugging problems.

This seems a good solution to me, thanks!

> Warner
-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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