Re: marking kern_assert(9) as __dead, and recursive panics

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 06:21:18PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
>   I don't know a reason for making all kernel asserts degenerate
>   to no-ops, but I imagine that it might have been a workaround
>   for problems with recursive panics, and I propose to address
>   recursive panics directly (see below).

Yes, that was the reason as far as I'm aware, and your change sounds
like it should fix it properly.

Martin