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Date:      Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:53:01 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "mav@freebsd.org" <mav@freebsd.org>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r186182 - head/sys/dev/ata 
Message-ID:  <32523.1230450781@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:35:30 PST." <20081228053530.GF18389@elvis.mu.org> 

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In message <20081228053530.GF18389@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>* Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> [081226 18:34] wrote:

>> I prefer to do nothing.  It's not unsafe or erroneous to access cfg  
>> registers.  But if some kind of message does get added, I insist that  
>> it drop all pretenses and say, "you're too poor to run freebsd, come  
>> back when you can afford better hardware.". :)
>
>Well that could be the result of a driver that has a "bug" that
>makes it access cfg space when it does not need to, as what seems
>to have just been fixed.

How about adding a counter and a rate warning under INVARIANTS ?

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