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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:23:56 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha support.s src/sys/i386/i386 swtch.s src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c src/sys/sys systm.h 
Message-ID:  <8219.1074623036@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:36:17 EST." <200401201234.45472.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <200401201234.45472.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>On Monday 19 January 2004 04:27 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> phk         2004/01/19 13:27:11 PST
>>
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/alpha/alpha      support.s
>>     sys/i386/i386        swtch.s
>>     sys/kern             kern_shutdown.c
>>     sys/sys              systm.h
>>   Log:
>>   Add linenumber and source filename to panic(9) output.
>>
>>   Ideally a traceback should be printed too, any takers ?
>
>We already print a traceback if DDB is in the kernel. 

The traceback doesn't make it into the msgbuffer, and therefore
many bug reports give no details.

>We already print a traceback if DDB is in the kernel.  Given that panic 
>messages are already largely unique and greppable, I think this doesn't 
>really buy us all that much.

It saves the PR-washing team a lot of grepping.

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