From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 30 08:55:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA03277 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:55:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from innocence.interface-business.de (innocence.interface-business.de [193.101.57.202]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA03249 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:54:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ida.interface-business.de (ida.interface-business.de [193.101.57.203]) by innocence.interface-business.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA08324 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:53:29 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by ida.interface-business.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA06294 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:55:54 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610301655.RAA06294@ida.interface-business.de> Subject: Re: Verbose babble in if_fddisubr.c To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:55:53 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610301649.RAA06483@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> from Stefan Esser at "Oct 30, 96 05:48:08 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Stefan Esser wrote: > How about adding a "sysctl" variable for that purpose ? > > I'd be opposed to make "bootverbose" take over the meaning > "produce more run-time debug messages", since this might > affect its current use. I'm all for it. There are already precedences for this abuse, e.g. in the slice code (prining of the slice's start and end address in the bootverbose case -- even though opening a slice is not necessarily related to booting). They should be converted, too. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j