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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 4/6] mlxsw: core: Implement temperature hwmon
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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 23:35:31 +0100
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Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 11:28:47PM CET, davem@davemloft.net wrote:
>From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
>Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 23:25:52 +0100
>
>> Again, there is no possible way to achieve this bugon, other than a
>> stack corruption. I don't think we should try to cope with a stack
>> corruption.
>
>Then remove the assertion.

I thought that in cases like this it is better to just assert and tell
user that something went horribly and non-recoverably wrong.

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