From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 20 12:21:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05175 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:21:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05135; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:21:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) id VAA03438; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:19:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199808201919.VAA03438@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_xl.c In-Reply-To: from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= at "Aug 20, 98 03:28:26 pm" To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:19:58 +0200 (CEST) Cc: wpaul@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav who wrote: > > Hmm, speaking of longer-than-80-col, I have a few PCI devices (Adaptec > 2940UW SCSI controller, Intel EtherExpress 100B LAN controller, 3Com > Etherlink XL LAN controller) that have names so long the probe message > is longer than 80 columns. Could the "int x irq x on pcix.xx.x" stuff > be written out on a separate line to avoid this? > > Here's an example: > > xl0: <3Com 3c905 Fast Etherlink XL 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.1 > 7.0 > > should IMHO be > > xl0: <3Com 3c905 Fast Etherlink XL 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x00 > xl0: int a irq 11 on pci0.17.0 I vote for as short and few messages as possible, one should boot with -v to get the longish more descriptive version. Ideally one line pr device thats it. Try boot a fairly new linux kernel and see what it can be driven to if not kept short, you almost know the name of the developers dog from that :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? ..