netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] switchdev: change BUG_ON to WARN for attr set failure case

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:27:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sfeldma@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...nulli.us, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] switchdev: change BUG_ON to WARN for attr set
 failure case

From: sfeldma@...il.com
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 11:20:42 -0700

> From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
> 
> This particular BUG_ON condition was checking for attr set err in the
> COMMIT phase, which isn't expected (it's a driver bug if PREPARE phase is
> OK but COMMIT fails).  But BUG_ON() is too strong for this case, so change
> to WARN().  BUG_ON() would be warranted if the system was corrupted beyond
> repair, but this is not the case here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Scott.
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