On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com> wrote:
Upstream already supports this via the loglevel= parameter on the kernel cmdline, so we should support using this instead of our own homegrown solution.
Very nice. Is this in your public repo so I can pull directly? I will (probably) not accept any patches introducing new variables to rc.conf going forward. Removing/changing them is too much of a hassle. Other things, I'd like to see go: HARDWARECLOCK: the third line in /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime contains this information, and should be moved to /etc (following upstream), but discussion needed. The value is set by "hwclock --systohc --{utc,localtime}". TIMEZONE: /etc/localtime contains this information and is not kept properly in sync with rc.conf. Would need a nice cmdline tool to update /etc/localtime. USECOLOR: not important, but we should be able to detect if color is supported... UDEV_TIMEOUT: the standard value is tweaked from time to time by upstream, so they probably know better than us what is a good default. We'll get rid of it once it is supported in udev.conf (should be a simple upstream patch, which will be accepted as it is on their TODO). NETWORK_PERSIST: once we find a way to auto-detect if this is needed. This should be simple, but we would need someone with the relevant setup to test. USE{LVM,DMRAID,BTRFS}: once they are handled by udev (don't know how difficult that will be, a task for upstream) Cheers, Tom