From owner-freebsd-new-bus Thu Jun 29 2:32:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-new-bus@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8324437B52D for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 02:32:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n_hibma@qubesoft.com) Received: from calcaphon.demon.co.uk ([193.237.19.5] helo=bluebottle.qubesoft.com) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 137agC-000Ks1-0W; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:32:16 +0100 Received: from henny.webweaving.org (henny.qubesoft.com [192.168.1.5]) by bluebottle.qubesoft.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA70323; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:32:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from n_hibma@qubesoft.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by henny.webweaving.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA17924; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:32:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from n_hibma@qubesoft.com) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:32:43 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@localhost Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Warner Losh Cc: new-bus@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Debugger vs panic In-Reply-To: <200006281634.KAA56222@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-new-bus@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Feel free to come up with patches. I am sure that the silence from camp dfr means that he is open to suggestions. :) Nick > : > I guess I want a "debugging expert" flag that says that I'll fix > : > anything that causes a kernel printf and to please just print and fail > : > exit rather than do a full panic for silly things. > : > : There is a number of places where you can't do this in any case. You > : can't solve all those fat-finger panics. > > Yes, but you can solve a whole lot of them. The resource already in > use one is the one that kept biting me. For that, you just return a > failure. > > Warner > -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-new-bus" in the body of the message