From owner-cvs-all Sun Oct 28 10:37:15 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from lists.unixathome.org (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A7437B401; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:37:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from wocker (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by lists.unixathome.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9SIau539403; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:36:56 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: Poul-Henning Kamp , Greg Lehey Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:36:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Causing known breakage (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_conf.c subr_disk.c) Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3BDC09F6.9492.31010D7C@localhost> References: <20011028031839.U95596-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v4.0, beta 40) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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