Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:35:25 -0700 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, dan@langille.org Subject: Re: Causing known breakage (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_c Message-ID: <XFMail.011028173525.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <39257.1004298767@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On 28-Oct-01 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <3BDC09F6.9492.31010D7C@localhost>, "Dan Langille" writes: >>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 > > I think people need to realize the that the warning which got turned > into a panic _was_ the HEADS UP, and that the period was 1+ years. > > Get a grip guys... The warning did not include a deadline. Come on, HEADS UP aren't that hard to type out. :) That's petty. Backing this out would also be petty. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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