From owner-cvs-all Sun Oct 28 11:53:40 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C22D37B408; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 11:53:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9SJqlS39259; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 20:52:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: dan@langille.org Cc: Greg Lehey , 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) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:36:54 EST." <3BDC09F6.9492.31010D7C@localhost> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 20:52:47 +0100 Message-ID: <39257.1004298767@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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