On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > When debugging and writing wireless drivers/stack code, I like to > sprinkle lots of locking assertions everywhere. However, this does > cause things to panic quite often during active development. > > This patch (against stable/9) makes the actual panic itself > configurable. It still prints the message regardless. > This has allowed me to sprinkle more locking assertions everywhere to > investigate whether particular paths have been hit or not. I don't > necessarily want those to panic the kernel. > > I'd like everyone to consider this for FreeBSD-HEAD.
I really do think that is a very bad idea. When a locking assertion fails you have just to stop your mind and think what's wrong, no way to postpone on this. -- Gianni _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
