My vote is NO!
I'd like to keep the current debugging message system for the following reasons: 1) Establishing a channel-based debug message system will flood the developers with messages they don't need.
2) I cannot enable a message in a single place without hacks, like turning a TRACE into a FIXME. Alternative: introduce TRACE1, FIXME1, etc. which are always enabled. But this looks like the current system.
3) I don't like to make changes to the registry in order to change the debug channel settings. How will I debug the boot process from a CD or floppy disk?
Regards, Eric