On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 13:21:12 +0100 (CET)
Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote:
> Mathieu,
>
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> > It is encouraged to warn and return rather than use BUG_ON() when
> > the condition can be recovered from in ways that are more graceful than
> > halting the whole system.
>
> You're failing to desribe how that graceful recovery works.
>
I think the graceful recovery is to simply return:
if (WARN_ON(cond))
return;
is better than just
BUG_ON(cond);
As that's what Linus made pretty clear at the Maintainer's Summit.
-- Steve
