On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:11:28PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 09:45:57AM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote: > > Excellent! Thanks to everybody who helped make this happen, starting > > with the participants at dtrace.conf who gave us the requisite whacks > > with the clue-by-four. > > > > However, what is our policy for enabling features in -STABLE that are > > known to be unstable? If we MFC this I don't have the slightest worry > > that somebody might see instability in their system just because the > > hooks are all of a sudden there, but I would worry that somebody make > > take DTrace hooks being enabled in GENERIC on -STABLE to imply that > > DTrace is stable, start using it and being upset when they trip over a > > DTrace bug. > > I think we should note that it remains experimental and somewhat buggy > in the release notes and probably in the MFC message. Otherwise, it's > like any new feature. If you start using a feature in production > without extensive testing you may be surprised.
I think that given we're just broken 9.x ice, it should be MFCed. ./danfe _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
