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On 1/8/24 11:31, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:

>> BTW, is this _warning_ really causing a crash?
>>
> 
> I think we can say this can cause a crash in a way, WARN_ONCE() is still a WARNING and we can have systems with panic_on_warn set.
> 

Oh yes! thanks for the clarification. :)

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Gustavo