Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752807AbbFHL1M (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2015 07:27:12 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:34384 "EHLO mail-wi0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752319AbbFHL1I (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2015 07:27:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 13:27:02 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Alexander Holler Cc: Richard Weinberger , Linus Torvalds , Tejun Heo , Louis Langholtz , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Trivial patch monkey , Rusty Russell , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH] debug: Deprecate BUG_ON() use in new code, introduce CRASH_ON() Message-ID: <20150608112702.GA20511@gmail.com> References: <1433721270-9182-1-git-send-email-lou_langholtz@me.com> <20150608000007.GA3543@mtj.duckdns.org> <20150608071215.GA369@gmail.com> <557546E6.5030304@ahsoftware.de> <5575558E.5070706@ahsoftware.de> <20150608090509.GA19160@gmail.com> <55755D6F.3030201@ahsoftware.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55755D6F.3030201@ahsoftware.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 694 Lines: 20 * Alexander Holler wrote: > > I am pretty certain that Greg would have applied such a patch in an eye blink. > > As you've said it, *probably*. But such a simple exit path as you're proposing > doesn't always exist. [...] As I said it's case by case. I discussed your example (which was a deficient patch for multiple reasons) but we'd be wasting everyone's time by discussion hypothethical situations. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/