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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:55:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Device probing... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009111654400.25275-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009120155440.78512-100000@login-1.eunet.no>

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Good idea, except it's hard to debug unless you have a working ddb or gdb or
something (which is very rare these days for the machines I usually work on).


> > The biggest one that's left is that a lot of drivers will end up printing 
> > things in interrupt context, leading to *incredibly* messy console 
> > output.  We'll need a cleaner way of presenting driver messages.
> 
> Couldn't this be resolved by adding a console buffer which you could spool
> lines to, rather than printing them directly? The buffer would then sort a
> certain number of lines at a time, and print them grouped by driver.
> </rough-sketch>
> 
> Marius
> 



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