Re: [PATCH] Convert serial_core oopses to BUG_ON

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Calling serial functions to flush buffers, or try to send more data
> > after the port has been closed or hung up is a bug in the code doing
> > the calling, not in the serial_core driver.
> >
> > Make this explicitly obvious by adding BUG_ON()'s.
>
>
> If we make it
>
> 	if (!info) {
> 		WARN_ON(1);
> 		return;
> 	}
>
> will that allow people's kernels to limp along until it gets fixed?

Any reason we don't have a WARN(), btw?

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