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SubjectRE: Cpufreq for opteron
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel@suse.cz]
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 8:51 AM
> To: Devriendt, Paul
> Cc: davej@redhat.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; aj@suse.de;
> Langsdorf, Mark; Brunner, Richard
> Subject: Re: Cpufreq for opteron
>
>
> Hi!
>
> > > 4) given good hardware and debugged driver, will any of those
> > > BUG_ON()s ever trigger?
> >
> > Only if there are BIOS problems.
>
> In such case, I believe best idea is to leave them in as BUG_ON(). On
> broken BIOS, it will kill machine cleanly, and hopefully bios is going
> to be fixed.
>
> If broken BIOS is seen in retail, we'll need to solve this other way.
>
> Does this seem okay to you?

My concerns with the BUG_ON() approach are :
1. Ease of me debugging the problem, as some of the state data I would
want to see is global, so it might not be in a backtrace.
2. Taking the machine down when exestuation could continue.

You have more kernel experience than I do, so I am willing to accept your
advice. I am ok with it.

Thanks. Paul.

> Pavel
> --
> When do you have a heart between your knees?
> [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
>

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