On 01/15/12 15:28, John Baldwin wrote: > On 1/15/12 2:09 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Log: >> - Fix undefined behavior when device_get_name is null >> - Make error message more informative > > The in-kernel printf(9) always prints "(null)" for %s when the pointer is > NULL, > so that wasn't undefined behavior. Printing out the driver name is a useful > change, but the "(unknown)" bits are just noise as it isn't clear that > "(unknown)" is substantially better than "(null)".
I think the change from "(null)" to "(unknown)" is useful, since when I see "(null)" printed my immediate thought is "looks like there's a bug I need to track down here". -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"