Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 00:40:26 -0400 From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: reichert@numachi.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages? Message-ID: <20021025004026.M22898@numachi.com> In-Reply-To: <20021024.165730.20755734.imp@bsdimp.com>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:57:30PM -0600 References: <20021024145653.E22898@numachi.com> <20021024.165730.20755734.imp@bsdimp.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:57:30PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > That's bogus. My /var/log/dmesg.today is full of crap saying that > certain ports can't be connected to. I had intended this information to be extracted at boot time, and shoved into another format elsewhere for other purusal. dmesg.today would be current, at that point. > : Essentially, I need to treat the output of dmesg (WRT device probes) > : as a database, and I want a schema for that database. Actually, I misspoke on this horribly. I meant to say: I want to scan the contents of the system message buffer, at boot time, for regular messages that describe device probing, and store that information elsewhere. I did not mean to imply that I was going to scan dmesg.today on demand, and expect anything reasonable... > That's a bad idea. devinfo(3) is made for this. Glad to hear that something's coming down the pipe... Cool, found the manpage on the FreeBSD website; thanks for the pointer... > > Warner > -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20021025004026.M22898>