Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 9 May 1996 11:07:13 +1000 (EST) | From | Mick J Hellstrom <> | Subject | Re: On the topic of noisy drivers... |
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On Tue, 7 May 1996, David A Willmore wrote: > I'll state this once more for a final bit of clarity. I have absolutely no > qualms with printing out large amounts of debugging information on bootup. > Since it's for debugging, it's for people with knowlege of the system. Since > the knowlegable people are going to read it, it would be fine to compact it > some or shorten some of the comments and spacing. Cryptic is fine. Taking a > whole line to say that a SCSI device is a direct-access SCSI-1 CCS drive is > rediculious. My final point is that some of us have limited options when it > comes to scrollback. If the 'debugging' information scrolls of the screen > before it can be read, it's not too useful for debugging, is it?
What might be a better idea is to have some levels of debugging set at boot time via LILO. I gather that this wouldn't be too hard to implement. This means you would be able to set a range 0-9, where 0 is nothing, and 9 the noisiest. This would solve everyone's problems.
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