Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 20:52:47 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: dan@langille.org Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, 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: <39257.1004298767@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:36:54 EST." <3BDC09F6.9492.31010D7C@localhost>
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In message <3BDC09F6.9492.31010D7C@localhost>, "Dan Langille" writes: >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 I think people need to realize the that the warning which got turned into a panic _was_ the HEADS UP, and that the period was 1+ years. Get a grip guys... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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