Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 21:39:41 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option Message-ID: <9511062042.AA09266@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <199511051031.VAA32280@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 5, 95 09:31:26 pm
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> >> > I've been voting for hiding the ``not found'' messages behind the
> >> > "bootverbose" (boot -v) case long ago, but nobody seems to agree. :)
> >> >
> >>
> >> i agree with you - i think this should be the sense of a "-v" flag - normally
> >> you should'ne see what's missing (if it is something impotant you'll see it if
> >> something is'nt working :-) - but you shoud have a chance to look more careful
> >> at all the device probes (using boot -v)
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> >I'll go along with that. "Not found" also scares off people who don't
> >realize that it's a normal state of affairs.
>
> It's only normal (and not good) for GENERIC and other bloated kernels.
>
but why not putting it behind an kernel option (VERBOSE or something like) -
then everybody may do it like he likes it - with VERBOSE all probes (positiv
and negative) are always displayed - without only positiv and the negatives
only when booted using the "-v" option
just'n idea - t
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