Re: [patch] change WARN_ON back to "BUG: at ..."

Hi!

> I've always felt that it is wrong (or at least misleading) that WARN_ON
> prints "BUG".  It would have been better if it had said "WARNING", and only
> BUG_ON says "BUG".
> 
> But lots of people have now written downstream log-parsing tools which
> might break due to this change, so I'm inclined to go with Ingo's patch,
> and restore the old (il)logic.

People should not be parsing syslog. If they do, they deserve
occassional breakage.
							Pavel
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