Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:36:54 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Causing known breakage (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_conf.c subr_disk.c) Message-ID: <3BDC09F6.9492.31010D7C@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110280918410.11401-100000@beppo> References: <20011028031839.U95596-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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On 28 Oct 2001 at 9:32, Matthew Jacob wrote: > I have no problem with the panic. But when one disables a warning and > makes it a panic, it'd be nice to have a headsup. Any statement that a > headsup is *not* a good idea is just nonsense. > > No criticism of PHK and the warnings -> panics was intended by me. The > tone I was selecting was simply one of extremly mild "would have been > nice". This has now blown up into a major lovefest along the usual lines. > I'm sorry- I had no intention of inducing such. I suggest the following should satisfy everyone: 1 - back out the change 2 - issue a HEADS UP about step 3 3 - reinstate the change after a period of time stated in step 2 -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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