On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 01:30, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We might want to add some "weaker" form of BUG_ON() for sanity checks that
> aren't life-threatening (ie a "CHECK(a == b)" kind of debug facility) that
> would be prettier than doing printk's and show_trace(), and that would
> also be easier to disable for production kernels (not that I personally
> much believe in disabling debugging like that - if it really isn't needed
> it should be removed, not disabled).
I'd have thought you may well want the reverse. If the user didnt pick
the kernel debugging, don't die on software check option you want to
blow up. If they are debugging or its < 2.6.0-rc1 you want it to show
the stack and keep going
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