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Subject: Re: debugging frequent kernel panics on 8.2-RELEASE
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on 11/08/2011 19:37 Steven Hartland said the following:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andriy Gapon" <avg@FreeBSD.org>
> 
>>
>> I would really appreciate if you could try to reproduce the problem with the patch
>> that I sent earlier.
> 
> Hi Andriy, what's the risk of this patch causing other issues?

I can not estimate.
The code is supposed to affect only things that happen after panic, so make your
guess.

> I ask as to get results from this we've going to have to roll it
> out to over 130+ production machines, so I'd like to be clear on
> the risks before I sign that off.

I will be happy if you try the patch on a single machine provided the problem is
that reproducible.

-- 
Andriy Gapon