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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:39:26 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Navdeep Parhar <np@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r244112 - head/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <201212171439.27297.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121215161414.V1029@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201212110708.qBB78EWx025288@svn.freebsd.org> <50CBC285.7060307@mu.org> <20121215161414.V1029@besplex.bde.org>

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On Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:04:17 am Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > On 12/14/12 4:12 PM, Robert Watson wrote:
> >> On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Thursday, December 13, 2012 4:02:15 am Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 04:53:48PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: A> The 
> >>>> problem again is that not all the KASSERTS are inviolable, if you A> want 
> >>>> to do a project to split them, then please do, it would really be A> 
> >>>> helpful, as for now, they are a mis-mash of death/warnings and there are 
> >>>> A> at least three vendors who approve of this as well as 3 long term A> 
> >>>> committers that approved my change (not including Adrian).
> >>>> 
> >>>> Can you show examples of not inviolable KASSERTs?
> >>> 
> >>> There are none.  They are all assertions for a reason.  However, in my
> 
> Not even one whose existence is a bug? :-)

They should just not exist at all then. :)  All the more reason for them to
panic early and often so developers will be prompted to remove them.

-- 
John Baldwin



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