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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
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