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Date:      Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:18:18 +0000
From:      "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sysctl.c
Message-ID:  <20050808201817.GA73709@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <42F7BA45.4040700@root.org>
References:  <200508081956.j78Jui1l095716@gw.catspoiler.org> <42F7BA45.4040700@root.org>

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On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 01:02:13PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
> One other thing:  I don't think this should be MFCd before 6.0.  It's 
> possible that there are some drivers that violate this rule and having a 
> release trigger panics is bad.  This is the same reason we turn off 
> INVARIANTS for releases.
> 

iirc WITNESS_WARN will only result in a panic if WARN_PANIC, otherwise
just a warning is printed to the console. Further, WITNESS_WARN is a nop
if WITNESS has'nt been compiled into the kernel. I think this is safe
to MFC.

-- 
Christian S.J. Peron
csjp@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD Committer



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