From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 25 5:22:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from webweaving.org (dialfwn07.fwn.rug.nl [129.125.32.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9AC14CB6 for ; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 05:22:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from n_hibma@webweaving.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webweaving.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00704; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:46:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from n_hibma@webweaving.org) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:46:11 +0100 (CET) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@localhost Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Darryl Okahata Cc: Soren Schmidt , Doug White , Theo van Klaveren , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems with the ATA-driver In-Reply-To: <199912221929.LAA28735@mina.sr.hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > While this can be moved into the man page, I don't see how a > message like this can significantly slow down booting, unless you have a > slow serial console. However, a pointer is still useful; I'd suggest a > shorter message like: > > ad0: DMA disabled: See ad(4) man page for possible reasons. > ata-pci0: Busmastering DMA supported > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port > acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-DA, DVD-ROM, DVD-R > acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels > acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray > acd0: Medium: 120mm data disc loaded, unlocked I perfectly agree. There is other ones ('usb0: USB version 1.0'), which are left in, for some secondary reason. And I think it would be a good idea to hide more output behind boot verbose. Personally I prefer to print the least possible to make sure errors and strange behaviour doesn't get lost in noise. Otherwise we'll have to resort to multi-colour output like RedHat does to make the 'ohci_wait_intr' message stand out. That's what I meant with Linux-like. Cheers, Nick -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message