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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:20:25 -0700 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> > - we're killing people's machines.  Can we switch it to a
> >   WARN_ON()+fix-up-the-mess?
> 
> The patch above does just that, it's queued up for .26, but I have no
> objection to add it now if you want.

It'd be best to do so, I think.

Upsides: we get more debug info and we might save people's machines

Downsides: ???