Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:51:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: comment about verbose booting Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809301346000.353-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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I notice that booting messages are made very terse, which for regular usage is normal and reasonable. What bothers me is, when I specifically ask for verbose booting (using the -v argument on booting) and I really want the results, most often for later viewing via dmesg, there is little if any difference in what comes out. People are quite right to limit the verbosity of normal boot messages, but I think that this is quite out of place, when a user specifically asks for verbose booting. I just wanted to make that point, and ask that people realize that sometimes, folks _want_ the verbosity, and I don't think the driver should stand in the way of that. If you hate verbose boot messages, don't ask for them, fine, but don't let that stop printing of diagnostic data for those folks that _do_ want them. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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