Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun 26-02-06 02:14:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Russell King <[email protected]> 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?
>
> It will oops in hard-to-guess, place, anyway.
Will it? Where? Unfixably?
> BUG_ON is right.
WARN_ON+return is far better. It keeps people's machines working until the
bug gets fixed.
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