Subject: Re: kernel disklabel messages
To: None <rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/17/1998 18:59:36
rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu writes:
> First, this is an x86 only issue; it is my doing to get more info for
> sysinst.

Why should sysinst be using the boot messages for this at all? This
data should really be visible via an ioctl, and we shouldn't need to
print it in every single set of boot messages in order to get it.

I really believe that system install should be doing much less "parse
boot messages" and far more "use C to walk the device tree and extract 
information".

Perry