From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 4 13:52:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74E28106568D for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:52:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (lefty.soaustin.net [66.135.55.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A868FC16 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id B4C188C080; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:52:52 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:52:52 -0500 From: Mark Linimon To: Andrew Milton , peterjeremy@acm.org, FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List Message-ID: <20090904135252.GA23438@lonesome.com> References: <200909010931.16880.nick@van-laarhoven.org> <1251841416.1689.4458.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <200909021656.15747.nick@van-laarhoven.org> <20090904100847.GA13167@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20090904101630.GA17207@camelot.theinternet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090904101630.GA17207@camelot.theinternet.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:25:05 +0000 Cc: Subject: Re: Reducing noise in dmesg output X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:52:53 -0000 No one has mentioned the other reason to leave in verbosity: so that users who are having problems can file more useful PRs. This is particularly true of video cards (which, as one might recall, is where this thread started.) In some cases it can save a whole round-trip of "please reboot with another flag set and provide the following information ..." mcl