The following reply was made to PR port-xen/29887; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>, christos@zoulas.com,
	gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, port-xen-maintainer@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-xen/29887: sysctl kern.consdev coredumps
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:03:33 +0200

 On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 04:10:55PM -0500, James Chacon wrote:
 > I do agree w. Christos here that if historically our printf has returned
 > (null) here that should probably be the behavior we should continue.
 
 I did not say anything about changing printf. But I do hink that our code
 should not rely on this behaviour.
 
 Martin