Multiple hpet messages during boot

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Sep 17 15:31:24 UTC 2010


In message: <4C911214.7060406 at FreeBSD.org>
            Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: Joel Dahl wrote:
: > I noticed this during boot (HEAD from yesterday):
: > 
: > hpet0: [FILTER]
: > hpet0: [FILTER]
: > hpet0: [FILTER]
: > hpet0: [FILTER]
: > hpet0: [FILTER]
: > hpet0: [FILTER]
: > hpet0: [FILTER]
: > hpet0: [FILTER]
: > 
: > Is it really necessary to print this 8 times?
: 
: HPET at present chipsets may use up to 8 IRQs. Driver registers filter
: interrupt handlers for them. Interrupt handling code prints this.
: 
: If you boot with verbose, you may see that some network cards prints
: alike things for the number of supported MSI/MSI-X interrupts.

Is there any reason not to toss all FILTER messages behind
bootverbose?

Warner


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