Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 20:54:22 -0400 From: Lee Cremeans <lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fnord0: disabled, not probed. Message-ID: <19971012205422.01929@wakky.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199710130027.RAA03047@usr05.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 12:27:09AM %2B0000 References: <19971012174035.46037@wakky.dyn.ml.org> <199710130027.RAA03047@usr05.primenet.com>
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On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 12:27:09AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > What will I do if I buy a used machine with FreeBSD installed on it... > > > telepathically copy the notebook from the guy selling it? > > > > > > It seems we are reaching here to eliminate a perfectly reasonable > > > warning message from the view of people too lazy to rebuild their > > > kernel with fewer devices. > > > > > > Okkay, time out. WHat's being proposed is the removal of the "disabled, not > > probed" message, NOT the "device not found" messages. Read Jordan's post > > again. > > Actually, the "disabled, not probed" messsages in the non-verbose case. Okkay, I saw that... > There is a lot of code that falls into this category in the kernel; > and a lot of code that is "dead" now that fixes have gone in, but > has never been removed because someone kludged it to keep its mouth > shut early on. If it has an open mount, we know it needs a fix; if > it doesn't, we won't know to dike it out if the fix comes regardless > of the code (generally, architectural fixes fix a lot of code, and only > the "mouthy" code gets diked out as a result -- we have a "code > completeness" problem here which making the "not probed" messsages > silent will only complicate. 8-(. I see where you're coming from now; in this case, hiding the silence option behind a #define may be a better idea. I'm not much of a kernel hacker, tho, so... -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac Ee34/1/36 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code
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