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Date:      Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:18:54 -0500
From:      linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, Olivier Houchard <cognet@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ddb db_command.c db_output.c
Message-ID:  <20051003171854.GA18710@soaustin.net>
In-Reply-To: <93558.1128359003@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <43416038.6020701@root.org> <93558.1128359003@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 07:03:23PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> There are pro etc con for both methods.  Once a dump has been sitting
> in a PR for a year, very few people tend to have compatible info
> tools available.

The counterpoint would be that after a dump has been sitting in a PR
for a year, the source base will often have drifted so much that any
prior investigative work needs to be re-run.

I'm hardly arguing against either solution here -- anything that we can
do to cut out one email round-trip on e.g. the i386/kern PRs can only
help us.

mcl



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