On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 02:19:58PM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 19:01, Nick Holland wrote: > > J.C. Roberts wrote: > > > FAQ 4.9 > > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#SendDmesg > > > "NOTE - Please send only GENERIC kernel dmesgs. Custom kernels that > > > have device drivers removed are not helpful." > > > > > > On systems where one can run GENERIC or GENERIC.MP do developers > > > prefer if we send in a separate dmesg for each kernel? > > > > > > If getting a dmesg from both kernels is desired, would it be wise > > > to augment the FAQ to state the preference? > > > > > > I absolutely hate trying to guess at what you guys want because I > > > regularly guess wrong. ;-) > > > > You and me, both. :) > > > > However, > > If it is a multi-processor machine, both would be nice. There are > > differences in how OpenBSD "sees" the machine between GENERIC and > > GENERIC.MP, so seeing both is useful. > > > > Nick. > > I figure there's some kind of automatic processing that is done on the > dmesg's so I'm wondering if there are any "rules" or preferences on > email line wrap settings? > > Also, can attachments be processed?
No line wrap is preferred, plain text attachments are useable but putting things inline would be better. Sending dmesgs in HTML, DOC or similiar things is mostly useless.
