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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 23:35:31 +0100

> Why to continue to work if we know that we are making things wrong
> (incorrect structure initialization in this case) ? What am I missing?

The user might be able to continue to have connectivity and
report the problem.

BUG_ON() is really a hard hammer.