Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: On the topic of noisy drivers... | Date | Thu, 02 May 1996 07:38:25 -0700 | From | "Justin T. Gibbs" <> |
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>On 30 Apr 96 at 14:53, David A Willmore wrote: > >> On Apr 29, 11:12pm, Mike McLagan wrote: >> > Is there *ANY* reason that the AIC77x0 driver needs to spew it's life's >> > story onto the console during bootup? Seems to me that 99% of what it spi >ts >> > out is extraneous! >> > >> > Maybe gagging it for 2.0 would be a good idea? >> >> I have to agree here. The number of lines that scroll by when my six disk S >CSI >> system boots is silly. Do I really need six lines to tell me that my disks >all >> use 512 byte hardware sectors? Partition information is line this, too. Ma >ybe >> I just have too many drives.... > >I think the Buslogic driver even beats the aic7xxx in number of >messages...
My opinion on this is that drivers should only be verbose if you ask them to be. Under FreeBSD, everything is very quiet unless you specify the "-v" boot flag. So, the FreeBSD aic7xxx driver spits out two lines per adapter, and the SCSI system spits out two lines per device by default:
ahc0: <Adaptec 274X SCSI host adapter> at 0x1c00-0x1cff irq 11 on eisa0 slot 1 ahc0: aic7770 <= Rev C, Twin Channel, A SCSI Id=7, B SCSI Id=7, 4 SCBs (ahc0:0:0): "QUANTUM PD1225S 3110" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 1169MB (2395980 512 byte sectors)
Dan Eischen mentioned something about using different syslog levels to get this type of effect under Linux.
>> Cheers, >> David > >Ulrich
-- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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