linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Prevent crash on missing sysfs attribute group

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Date:	Wed, 4 Apr 2012 00:34:35 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Bruno Prémont <bonbons@...ux-vserver.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent crash on missing sysfs attribute group


* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:

> > This has no relevance to the bug and crash pattern itself 
> > whatsoever, so stop blathering about unrelated things.
> 
> Crashing or BUG_ON or WARN_ON has no relevance to how hard it 
> is to debug this. [...]

Erm, so you think the difference between a nice WARN_ON() and a 
machine that *DOES NOT BOOT* is irrelevant?

In which universe? Smoking what kind of drugs?

Seriously, you need a reality check. We settled the BUG_ON() 
versus WARN_ON() debate about a decade ago, in favor of 
WARN_ON().

Thanks,

	Ingo
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