Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 at 07:40, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 12:26:56AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > (Sorry if this is a stupid question) - is it at all possible for the
> > call to MAKEDEV to fail in such a way that its not run and no output
> > is generated?
>
> It can fail in various ways, and I am trying to reprove error reporting
> in that situation. However, since we support the "no /dev/console"
> situation in regular setups it is wrong to report an error for that.

Absolutely in agreement it should not be an error message, but an
informative message might be useful. Particularly if we're supporting
MAKEDEV in locations other than /dev then possibly indicating which
MAKEDEV is being called could be reasonable...

Thanks

David