Re: [PATCH] Convert serial_core oopses to BUG_ON

[Andrew Morton]

Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Calling serial functions to flush buffers, or try to send more data
>  after the port has been closed or hung up is a bug in the code doing
>  the calling, not in the serial_core driver.
> 
>  Make this explicitly obvious by adding BUG_ON()'s.

If we make it

	if (!info) {
		WARN_ON(1);
		return;
	}

will that allow people's kernels to limp along until it gets fixed?
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