Re: [PATCH] tty: make sure a BUG is hit if tty_port will bedestroyed before tty

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 09:12:08AM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
> tty depends on tty_port until tty_release() was called. Make sure a BUG
> will be hit, if tty_port will be destroyed before tty.

So you want to ensure that we crash a machine?  No, please never add
BUG() statements to the kernel, unless something _really_ bad is going
to happen if we don't call it.  I never want to stop a machine from
running, do you?

I can't take this as-is, why not just fix the root problem?

thanks,

greg k-h
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