cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sysctl.c

[Peter Jeremy]

On Mon, 2005-Aug-08 13:02:13 -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
>Don Lewis wrote:
>>On  8 Aug, Christian S.J. Peron wrote: 
>>> memory. This can result in a number of different locking issues, 
>>> including dead locks.
>
>One other thing:  I don't think this should be MFCd before 6.0.  It's 
>possible that there are some drivers that violate this rule and having a 
>release trigger panics is bad.  This is the same reason we turn off 
>INVARIANTS for releases.

I personally think panics are preferable to deadlocks.  At least with a
panic, it's obvious that something went wrong, and you have a fighting
chance of finding out why.  Having a computer freeze for no apparent
reason is extremely frustrating - especially if it does so gradually.

If necessary, we can always set the console background to blue and/or
call it a "guru meditation message" :-)

-- 
Peter Jeremy