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From: Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com>
Subject: Re: [PM-WIP-OPP][PATCH 1/4] omap3: pm: cpufreq: BUG_ON cleanup
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:52:14 +0200
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:46:54AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> IMO, Using BUG* macros usually indicates improper or incomplete error
> handling rather than a real catastrophic system failure.

on the other hand a kernel oops and system hang will always get noted. Rather
than a WARN() which simply sits in the log buffer. Remember that not all
users will be looking at console. If there's a kernel hang, we get a
core dump which is saved in the mtdoops (if you're using it) and can
send later to some central server for analysis.

-- 
balbi