linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: bcm2835-audio: replace BUG_ON with WARN

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Date:   Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:20:23 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     karuna grewal <karunagrewal98@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: bcm2835-audio: replace BUG_ON with WARN_ON

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 04:54:24PM +0530, karuna grewal wrote:
> replace BUG_ON with WARN_ON as pointed out by checkpatch
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karuna Grewal <karunagrewal98@...il.com>

I can not accept patches sent in html format...

> ---
>  drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c b/
> drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c
> index 5ff4b1c..30d310b 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-ctl.c
> @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static int snd_bcm2835_ctl_get(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol,
>         if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&chip->audio_mutex))
>                 return -EINTR;
> 
> -       BUG_ON(!chip && !(chip->avail_substreams & AVAIL_SUBSTREAMS_MASK));
> +       WARN_ON(!chip && !(chip->avail_substreams & AVAIL_SUBSTREAMS_MASK));

Why will this make things better?

thanks,

greg k-h