Re: [PATCH] Convert serial_core oopses to BUG_ON
From: Nick Piggin
Date: Sun Feb 26 2006 - 05:17:08 EST
Andrew Morton wrote:
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?
Any reason we don't have a WARN(), btw?
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