On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
[...] > > I'm getting *real* tired of that BUG_ON() shit. I realize that > infiniband is a niche market, and those "commercial grade" niche > markets are more-than-used-to crap code and horrible hacks, but this > is still the kernel. We don't add random machine-killing debug checks > when it is *so* simple to just do > > if (WARN_ON_ONCE(..)) > return -EINVAL; > > instead. > > Killing the machine for idiotic things like that is truly offensive, > and truly horrible horrible code. Why do I keep on having to tell > people off for doing these things? Why do people keep thinking that > debugging-by-killing-the-machine is a good idea? Ingo figured this was an educational battle that we'd never win. https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/21/490 I tend to agree, as unfortunate as that is. Paul. -- > > Either that BUG_ON() cannot possibly happen, in which case it should > damn well not exist in the first place. Or it's a valuable debug aid, > in which case it should damn well not be a BUG_ON. You can't have it > both ways. > > The next pointless BUG_ON() I see, I will start getting _really_ > unpleasant about. > > Doug, get rid of those things asap. > > Linus > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
