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Date:      Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:32:43 +0100 (BST)
From:      Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        new-bus@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Debugger vs panic 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0006282031500.17844-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200006281634.KAA56222@harmony.village.org>

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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
> 

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