Bug 17581

Summary: devices failing probing do so silently
Product: Base System Reporter: Nick Johnson <freebsd>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.0-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Nick Johnson 2000-03-24 16:20:01 UTC 
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).

Fix: 

Add and/or document a boot flag to show probe failures, or show them with
greater verbosity by default.
How-To-Repeat: Add any driver for a device not in your system to the kernel.
Comment 1 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-07-14 12:09:09 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Is this still an issue with recent releases?
Comment 2 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-08-16 06:27:49 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout