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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa clock.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 1997 13:41:48 +0300."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 03:13:45 -0800
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>>    The pause isn't long enough to matter. No message should be emitted.
>
>I think some message should be emmited, if clock calibration gives
>wrong results and no message in usual case.

   The calibration results are not useful to 99.999% of the people who use
FreeBSD. If they should notice that the clock isn't working correctly, then
they can 'boot verbose' and provide the information to the developers.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project