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Date:      Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:46:58 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org>, Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Reducing noise in dmesg output
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University of Cambridge

On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> on 03/09/2009 12:38 Robert Watson said the following: [snip]
>> devinfo(8) captures some of this, but can't, for example, cleanly represent 
>> an IRQ being shared by multiple devices
> [snip]
>
> Minor technical nit - devinfo can actually do it (since r192379).

I stand pleasantly corrected :-).  However, I think the point holds: we're 
relying on dmesg as the authoritative source of hardware discovery/probe 
information, and really, we should be using some more structured way of 
delivering that information, generic or device-specific.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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