Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages?

2002-10-25 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 12:09, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > : On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:08:34PM -0600, M. Warner Losh w

Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages?

2002-10-25 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 12:09, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:08:34PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > devinfo will also deal with a device that arrives 3 days after the > : > system has

Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages?

2002-10-25 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:08:34PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > devinfo will also deal with a device that arrives 3 days after the : > system has booted. : : Devinfo is looking to be _far_ more encompassin

Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages?

2002-10-25 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:08:34PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > devinfo will also deal with a device that arrives 3 days after the > system has booted. Devinfo is looking to be _far_ more encompassing that what I originally wanted/needed, and look forward to 5.x (-CURRENT or otherwise) to be sta

Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages?

2002-10-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > That's a bad idea. devinfo(3) is made for this. : : Glad to hear that something's coming down the pipe... : : Cool, found the manpage on the FreeBSD website; thanks for the pointer... devinfo will also dea

Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages?

2002-10-24 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:57:30PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > That's bogus. My /var/log/dmesg.today is full of crap saying that > certain ports can't be connected to. I had intended this information to be extracted at boot time, and shoved into another format elsewhere for other purusal. dme

Re: RFC: standardize device probe messages?

2002-10-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : I'm poking at a little project that will get me 'System Info' a la : the Microsoft experience. Look at the stuff I'm adding to the devinfo interface. : Simply enough, it just scans '/var/log/dmesg.today' for