Developer kprintf's

Peter Avalos peter at theshell.com
Thu Sep 16 20:19:05 PDT 2010


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:05:44PM -0600, Samuel J. Greear wrote:
> We have quite a few kprintf's in the kernel that do not necessarily
> report error conditions, they are purely informational and highlight
> odd or rare cases that often the end-user of the operating system
> really doesn't need to know about. This has been discussed quite a few
> times on IRC.
> 
> I would like to put these under a sysctl like kern.developer and wrap
> them in a function like dkprintf unless anyone has any major
> objections. (I'm open to suggestions on the naming).
> 

It seems like it'd be better to display these messages upder
bootverbose.

--Peter
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