Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:32:10 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Khan M. Klatt" <> | Subject | Re: Boot messages |
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On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Is it appropriate to mention that the TCP/IP implementation is by the > > Swansea University Computer Society, or that Donald Becker wrote the > > WD8003 driver? This just makes Linux look like more of a patchwork > > than it already is, rather than giving a seamless, well-integrated > > appearance. > > Given said computer society would probably no longer exist if it had not > you judge. I don't see what the problem is with the copyright messages. It > would be good to change them to all use the same format and style so we > get for example > > eth0: NE2000 IRQ 7 I/O 0x240 Address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Version 1.14 > > but also changing stuff like the floppy to report > > fd0: XXXXXchip IRQ n I/O xxx .... > > The way to do this would probably be to provide > > report_config(devname, irq, io, mem, memend, dma, other, version);
This would be nice. You could even grok the dmesg stuff in an rc.local script to keep track of what kind of changes your hardware has gone through. A nice Perl script to append to /var/adm/bootup, and then you can do a "hardware-last" which gives you a "last"-like output of what configs you booted in the past year, etc... ;-)
-Khan
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