On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Laura Garcia Liebana wrote:

> Prevent a kernel panic by avoiding the use of the BUG_ON macro.
> Checkpatch detected this issue.
>
> The WARN_ON macro is not needed as such cases shouldn't happen and they
> were introduced for debugging purposes.

Not sure to understand.  There is no use of WARN_ON.

julia

>
> Signed-off-by: Laura Garcia Liebana <nev...@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>       - According to Marc Dietrich, module creator, the WARN_ON macro is not 
> needed as such cases shouldn't happen and they were introduced for debugging 
> purposes.
>
> Changes in v3:
>       - Explanation of changes in v2 included in the commit message, as Fabio 
> Estevam suggested.
>
>  drivers/staging/nvec/nvec.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec.c b/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec.c
> index c335ae2..f6a1dbb 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec.c
> @@ -641,11 +641,9 @@ static irqreturn_t nvec_interrupt(int irq, void *dev)
>                       nvec_msg_free(nvec, nvec->rx);
>                       nvec->state = 3;
>                       nvec_tx_set(nvec);
> -                     BUG_ON(nvec->tx->size < 1);
>                       to_send = nvec->tx->data[0];
>                       nvec->tx->pos = 1;
>               } else if (status == (I2C_SL_IRQ)) {
> -                     BUG_ON(nvec->rx == NULL);
>                       nvec->rx->data[1] = received;
>                       nvec->rx->pos = 2;
>                       nvec->state = 4;
> --
> 2.7.0
>
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