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Subject: devices silently fail
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>Number:         17581
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       devices failing probing do so silently
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 24 08:20:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Fri Aug 15 22:27:57 PDT 2003
>Last-Modified:  Fri Aug 15 22:27:57 PDT 2003
>Originator:     Nick Johnson
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Spatula Systems
>Environment:
re-rolled 4.0-release
	

>Description:
Unlike previous versions of FreeBSD, when devices in 4.0-release fail to
probe, they do so silently (instead of reporting "xxx not found" or 
"xxx conflicts with zzz, not probed", etc).  This makes debugging more
difficult, and happens even with the -v flag given to the kernel.

If a new boot flag has been added to show these failures, it is not documented
in boot(8).
	

>How-To-Repeat:
Add any driver for a device not in your system to the kernel.
	

>Fix:
Add and/or document a boot flag to show probe failures, or show them with
greater verbosity by default.
	
	


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: kris 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 14 04:09:09 PDT 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
Is this still an issue with recent releases? 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=17581 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: kris 
State-Changed-When: Fri Aug 15 22:27:49 PDT 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=17581 
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