Re: [PATCH] debug: Deprecate BUG_ON() use in new code, introduce CRASH_ON()

[Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>]

Am 08.06.2015 um 13:27 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
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> * Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote:
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>>> I am pretty certain that Greg would have applied such a patch in an eye blink.
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>> As you've said it, *probably*. But such a simple exit path as you're proposing
>> doesn't always exist. [...]
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> As I said it's case by case. I discussed your example (which was a deficient patch
> for multiple reasons) but we'd be wasting everyone's time by discussion
> hypothethical situations.

Sure it was a deficient patch, but still better than what existed for a 
year long in the kernel and which leaded to a reset of a system sometime 
after a wireless remote connected device was turned off. And it showed 
exactly where the problem existed. Maybe I should mention that almost a 
year after I've posted that patch, people still stumbled over the 
problem (and likely had the same hard time to find the reason for a 
sudden reboot without any warning).

I just want to make clear that a brutforce slogan like BUG_ON is bad is 
bad, especially as there are many people which just might repeat that 
slogan without thinking about what they are repeating.

Alexander Holler