[RFQ] make witness panic an option

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 01:37:19PM +0000, Attilio Rao wrote:
> 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.

I propose to get Adrian's patches in, just leave current behaviour as
the default.

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