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Message-ID: <20070529115324.GB18437@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:53:24 +0200
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
Joel Schopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a trivial patch style checker
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:23:45AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Possible further checks that might make sense:
> - panic() anywhere in drivers/*
A driver should be allowed to panic. E.g. if it detects that due to a
firmware or driver bug memory corruption happened. IMHO the best thing
to do then is panic.
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