On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 03:06:24PM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote: > > I will gladly take patches to remove the other calls to BUG_ON() in this > > driver (hint...) > > What is the right thing to do when an assertion fails? > i.e. some condition that should never occur occurs. > In such cases it is not always reasonable to muddle on...
Regarding the panics, I think the check should just be removed entirely. The kernel cannot successfully guard against memory corruption or whatever in any meaningful manner: imagine if we had these checks all over the kernel, it would be unreadable. regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
