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Subject: Re: svn commit: r263424 - head/sys/arm/conf
From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To: Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz>
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On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 09:43 +0000, Andrew Turner wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:01:21 +0000 (UTC)
> Ruslan Bukin <br@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > Author: br
> > Date: Thu Mar 20 17:01:21 2014
> > New Revision: 263424
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/263424
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Disable debugging by default.
> 
> I don't like this on head. I have found a number of issues that were
> hidden because the kernel config most people were using for development
> had WITNESS, INVARIANTS and DIAGNOSTIC disabled.
> 
> Andrew
> 

I disagree.  Witness is essentially useless anymore, because there are
so many known LORs that nobody cares about when you report them that all
it does is spews noise.  Maybe it's useful when you're looking for a
particular problem, but leaving it on all the time has just lost its
value.

-- Ian