svn commit: r234504 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

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