From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 7 16:28:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA20053 for current-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:28:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA20048 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:28:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA15640 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:28:07 -0800 (PST) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: New kernel option proposed.. Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 16:28:07 -0800 Message-ID: <15638.826244887@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Speak now or forever hold your peace, as they say.. Stefan Esser would like an option which he can use to conditionalize code to be "conservative" in the case where you're first installing. There is a good deal of other code that could probably also benefit from the ability to say "run this code if you care more about function than speed." In former times we used the GENERIC keyword to do stuff like this, but that was clearly gross. Stefan and I have tossed the idea around and come up with the keyword FAILSAFE as a reasonable proposal. CONSERVATIVE is probably just a bit too long, and people will probably think that you enable it in order to get your kernel to vote Republican anwyay.. :-) Comments? Jeers? If not, I'll commit it to LINT. Jordan