Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:38:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34 |
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > Which still leaves the question, does it really make sense for > FATAL/BUG to forcibly kill the machine?
No. It should only be "locally fatal", and it should clearly just do what BUG() does now - kill the process.
But that implies very much that you really cannot use FATAL() in general at all, since it would be illegal to use whenever some caller holds some non-local locks (which is almost always the case for most "peripheral code").
Linus
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