From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 24 21:40:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F5937B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from natto.numachi.com (natto.numachi.com [198.175.254.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF77A43E42 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:40:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 27305 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Oct 2002 04:40:26 -0000 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 00:40:26 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: reichert@numachi.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages? Message-ID: <20021025004026.M22898@numachi.com> References: <20021024145653.E22898@numachi.com> <20021024.165730.20755734.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021024.165730.20755734.imp@bsdimp.com>; from imp@bsdimp.com on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:57:30PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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