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From: "Wojciech A. Koszek" <dunstan@freebsd.czest.pl>
To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Panic while loading GEOM BSD class (KASSERTions)
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:32:17PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:58:20PM +0000, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote:
> +> Hello GEOM hackers,
[..]
> 
> GEOM_BSD is always added to the kernel:
> 
> /sys/conf/files.alpha:geom/geom_bsd.c                   standard
[..]
> And if you want to ask if we should panic or not if class is already
> there... I suggested phk@ in the past to just return an error, not
> sure what his response was (maybe 'prepare a patch' :)).

Hi Pawel,
I mean exacly this. We have GEOM_BSD by default. but it would be nice to
cleanly return with error code. Similar problem is reported with if_run.ko
and if_ppp.ko (PR: kern/79493).

Regards,
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* Wojciech A. Koszek && dunstan@FreeBSD.czest.pl