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Date:      Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:07:38 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, bde@zeta.org.au, joe@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_timeout.c 
Message-ID:  <4527.1032368858@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:47:38 CDT." <20020918114452.A75224-100000@patrocles.silby.com> 

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In message <20020918114452.A75224-100000@patrocles.silby.com>, Mike Silbersack 
writes:
>
>On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>
>> In message: <20020918222929.N15419-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
>>             Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
>> :
>> : No :-).  I would use the ones in
>> : /sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/${MACHINE_ARCH}/db_trace.c (5 arches so far).
>>
>> Doh!  Of course.  One would need ddb for that, it the only drawback.
>>
>> Warner
>
>Perhaps the answer is to have an option MINIDDB which wouldn't allow you
>to invoke DDB, but would make such functions available for panics.  David
>Malone's right, having such a feature on in GENERIC would make bug reports
>a _lot_ more useful.

Depending how much code we're talking about, we might pull it out of
DDB and into the kernel instead.

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