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Subject: Re: [RFQ] make witness panic an option
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
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On 15 November 2012 11:55, Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Since you've made it abundantly clear in this thread that you are not
> open to anyone else's opinion and won't change your mind, I'm not going
> to waste even 10 seconds explaining my perfectly valid needs.
>
> I'll just keep hacking the code up to not panic when I need to.

I agree with Attilio - any driver or subsystem that's causing witness
panics need to be fixed.
But I think my change is invaluable for development, where you want to
improve and debug the locking and lock interactions of a subsystem.



adrian