Hi!
Another idea that came to my mind, is to add a much more verbose description to errors, since for errors like "index element `%s::%s' of row `%s' should but cannot have a size restriction" I would wonder if people get this error and do NOT ask what it means. :-)
AH> If you could persuade Cisco, HP, IBM, Intel, etc. to put range AH> restrictions in MIBs I might stop suppressing that warning.
??? I am missing context.
AH> Are some of the warnings not relevant to SMIv1 MIBs, or SMIv2 ones AH> converted to SMIv2 by, say, smidump?
??? Which warnings? Why SMIv2->SMIv2 conversion? What do you mean by converting warnings by smidump?
AH> While we're here, what is the correct way to do these (taken from AH> INTELCORPORATIONBASEBOARD-MIB which is SMIv1): [...]
"Here" is not the right place to discuss general SMI questions. (Both cases, (1) and (2), are simply illegal in SMIv1 and SMIv2. There is nothing more to say about such broken "MIBs".)
-frank