Re: [PATCH] Prevent crash on missing sysfs attribute group

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Apr 03 2012 - 18:34:37 EST



* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > This has no relevance to the bug and crash pattern itself
> > whatsoever, so stop blathering about unrelated things.
>
> Crashing or BUG_ON or WARN_ON has no relevance to how hard it
> is to debug this. [...]

Erm, so you think the difference between a nice WARN_ON() and a
machine that *DOES NOT BOOT* is irrelevant?

In which universe? Smoking what kind of drugs?

Seriously, you need a reality check. We settled the BUG_ON()
versus WARN_ON() debate about a decade ago, in favor of
WARN_ON().

Thanks,

Ingo
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