Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:21:12 +0100 > From: Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost> > Message-ID: <49844238.2080301%softjar.se@localhost> > > | What do you mean by this? Have you just changed the default of > | ddb.onpanic to 0? > > I also wasn't sure, so I went and tool a look. As best I can tell, the > answer to your question is "yes" - but it applies if, and only if > there's no "options DDB_ONPANIC=N" in the system config file. > > With that, if the option isn't given, having it default to "on" seems > totally backwards to me, if you want ddb.onpanic=1 you can either set > it in sysctl.conf or in the kernel config file. > > i386's GENERIC config (at least) contains ... > > #options DDB_ONPANIC=1 # see also sysctl(8): `ddb.onpanic' > > which I would have always interpreted as meaning that the option exists, > set it to 1 to get its effect, but that in the default config it isn't set > (and that sysctl could set it). > > But that wasn't the effect at all, commenting it out caused it to be set, > which is just totally bizarre. > > The change changes things to the way it should be, it should also get pulled > up to NetBSD 5 (but not NetBSD 4). Yes, please, somone pullup this to 5.0. -- When in doubt, use brute force. Adam Hoka <ahoka%NetBSD.org@localhost> Adam Hoka <ahoka%MirBSD.de@localhost> Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost>
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