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Date:      Wed, 04 Mar 1998 16:13:52 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>
Cc:        shimon@simon-shapiro.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: silo overflows (Was Re: 3.0-RELEASE?) 
Message-ID:  <199803050013.QAA22992@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Mar 1998 10:30:05 %2B1030." <34FDEB05.9CA1F531@dsto.defence.gov.au> 

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> There was a time when it didn't happen at all...hmmm was that 2.1R ?
> or maybe 2.2-CURRENT sometime after that.

Yeah, before the message was actually printed.  Let's take all those 
annoying warning messages out of the kernel, so that you can't tell 
what is going wrong.  It works for Microsoft, after all.

> Simon Shapiro wrote:
> > 
> > How about getting rid of that ``%d more silo overflow..'' message?  I am
> > too limited in my understanding device drivers to see why that happens.

You could try reading the manpage, just for starters.

> > I though that UARTs and RS-232C were well understood.

Na und?  They're sufficiently well understood for unrecoverable 
error conditions to be detected and reported.  What more do you want?

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