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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:43:59 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> 
>>Which still leaves the question, does it really make sense for
>>FATAL/BUG to forcibly kill the machine?
> 
> 
> No. It should only be "locally fatal", and it should clearly just do what 
> BUG() does now - kill the process.
> 
> But that implies very much that you really cannot use FATAL() in general
> at all, since it would be illegal to use whenever some caller holds some
> non-local locks (which is almost always the case for most "peripheral
> code").


Well we still have panic()...  It might be nice to have a PANIC() macro 
with a similar form to that of DEBUG/WARN/FATAL...

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