Re: Reducing noise in dmesg output

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Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
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3 Sep 2009 15:46:59
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Re: Reducing noise in dmesg output
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On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> on 03/09/2009 12:38 Robert Watson said the following: [snip]
>> devinfo(8) captures some of this, but can't, for example, cleanly represent
>> an IRQ being shared by multiple devices
> [snip]
>
> Minor technical nit - devinfo can actually do it (since r192379).

I stand pleasantly corrected :-). However, I think the point holds: we're
relying on dmesg as the authoritative source of hardware discovery/probe
information, and really, we should be using some more structured way of
delivering that information, generic or device-specific.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge


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