Re: Reducing noise in dmesg output

University of Cambridge

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