On Fri Oct 14 11, Alexander Best wrote: > On Fri Oct 14 11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <20111014085609.ga3...@freebsd.org>, Alexander Best writes: > > > > >1) would it be possible to prepend those timestamps to the actual console > > >output and not only to the output of demsg? maybe via a sysctl toggle? > > > > The kernel does not know enough about timezones to emit anything > > but UTC timestamps. > > hmm ok. > > > > > >2) my dmesg output contains a lot of these entries: "<118>" > > > > These are magic markers for syslogd(8) specifying priority. > > it would be nice, if their output could be turned off via a dmesg flag imo. > > > > > >3) roughly the first 30 lines of my dmesg output have the timestamp > > >"[1.0]". > > >would it be possible to have more accuracy there? > > > > No, because we don't know the time until we've found the RTC chip. > > maybe prepending the output with [??] instead of [1.0] would make more sense, > so users knows that those timestamps are bogus.
maybe the granularity of the timestamps could be limited to a static value? the following output doesn't really look pretty: [7.729516] <118>/dev/ufs/varfs: clean, 879143 free (7407 frags, 108967 blocks, 0.7% fragmentation) [7.891512] <118>Mounting local file systems:WARNING: TMPFS is considered to be a highly experimental feature in FreeBSD. [8.33519] . [9.440514] <118>Setting hostname: otaku. [9.744516] wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:b5:82:07:c8 [9.850516] <118>Starting wpa_supplicant. [10.335514] <118>Starting Network: lo0 ath0. so it would be nice, if trailing zeros got printed out, too. cheers. alex > > cheers. > alex > > > > > -- > > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > > p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
