Re: My Wishlist and strategic thinking for v2.4

[Raphael Becker <beckerra@rumms.uni-mannheim.de>]

David Weinehall wrote:
[...]
> Why would Joe average need this information at all? I think, that we only
> should output messages that indicate problems, nothing else, such as
> 'Warning: couldn't connect to a network' or similar.

Ok, better solution for this problem: a reporting-level-thing:

level=0: No Output, only an Win-like startup-pinguin-graphic (for John
average :)
level=1: No Messages, no warnings, only strong errors
level=2: No Messages, warnings, errors
level=3: Short Messages (like: CPU: 300 MHz ... see my example from
last mail), all warnings, all errors, alpha-level-warnings¹
level=4: All messages (like now), all warnings and errors
level=5: like level4 plus additional debugging information
(hardware-failures)
level=6: like level5 plus full tracing of all actions ... (like: start
searching pci-bus ... found device ... searching next ... found ...
stop searching pci-bus) for advanced debugging ... with this you could
test a new kernel-feature you just programmed.
level=7: reserved

¹ "alpha-level-warning": a new part of the kernel, witch is very new
("alpha") and not tested very well, in addition an e-mail-adress for
reporting an error.

Greetings
Raphael

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