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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Convert serial_core oopses to BUG_ON
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>Calling serial functions to flush buffers, or try to send more data
>> after the port has been closed or hung up is a bug in the code doing
>> the calling, not in the serial_core driver.
>>
>> Make this explicitly obvious by adding BUG_ON()'s.
>
>
> If we make it
>
> if (!info) {
> WARN_ON(1);
> return;
> }
>
> will that allow people's kernels to limp along until it gets fixed?

Any reason we don't have a WARN(), btw?

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