[RFQ] make witness panic an option

[Attilio Rao]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:42:16PM +0000, Attilio Rao wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > WITNESS is a development tool. We don't ship production kernels with
>> > WITNESS even compiled in. What is more efficient use of developer time:
>> > going through full reboot cycle every time or reading the warning from
>> > console, unloading a module, fixing the bug and loading it again?
>> >
>> > And if this option is turned off by default what is the problem?
>>
>> Yes, so, why do you write here?
>
> I'm trying to understand why do you object. Until now the only concern
> you have that I found is that you are afraid of it being abused. I don't
> see how this can be abused if it is turned off by default. If someone
> will commit a change that will turn it on by default, believe me, I'll
> unleash hell personally.

So I don't understand what are you proposing.
You are not proposing to switch BLESSING on and you are not proposing
to import Adrian's patches in, if I get it correctly. I don't
understand then.

Attilio


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