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From:
Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: Use dmesg(8) in fw_update(8) instead of dmesg.boot
To:
Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>, Andrew Hewus Fresh <andrew@afresh1.com>
Cc:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:54:12 +0000

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25.12.2025 19:07, Theo de Raadt пишет:
> Hmm.
> 
> I think we chose dmesg.boot for a reason before, but I'm not sure I
> remember the reason.
> 
> Maybe we thought $(dmesg) could have rolled over with noisy debug messages,
> and thus hidden names of devices we want to identify, and therefore
> dmesg.boot was more reliable?
> 
> Here's a thought:  Should we look at both $(dmesg) and dmesg.boot ??

I certainly have machines where dmesg gets flooded with log spam,
so any $(dmesg) with a few hours of uptime won't have a single device.

If fw_update stops looking at dmesg.boot, there won't be any chance
for it to update existing firmware, right?